Question

Whenever I enter my Wiki, I will land on Main. Instead I would like to initially land on an own web which I created myself. Could not find the place to change this. Can somebody help?

• TWiki version: 01 Feb 2003 (upgraded from 01 Dec 2001)
• Perl version: v5.6.1 built for i586-linux
• Web server & version:
• Server OS: i586-linux
• Web browser & version:
• Client OS: NT 4.0

-- JoergBieri - 16 May 2003

Answer

May be misunderstand something, but isn't this simply a question of creating a link to your .../bin/view/Entryweb/WebHome topic instead of .../bin/view/Main/WebHome? Also, if you omit the web, e.g. .../bin/view, you will end up in the Main web, or the web specified by the $mainWebname setting in TWiki.cfg. However, if you change the $mainWebname setting it will affect all %MAINWEB% variables.

-- PeterThoeny - 17 May 2003

I know this is not my question but I now have three different twiki's running and I find that I am nervous of changing the Mian web but I want to navigate to a welcome web which is not main usinf .../twiki/bin/view I have got round it by using a feature of the Koala Skin but would like to have an Entryweb Variable which means Main get left untouched but the entry point is different.

-- MartinRoberts - 19 May 2003

Peter, I was hopping to find an easier way to solve my problem. As it looks like I would have to change the %MAINWEB% variable, I added an enhancement request for an %ENTRYWEB% variable (or an similar entry in the TWiki.cfg) as Martin mentioned.

-- JoergBieri - 26 May 2003

To do this you must change 2 things:

• Fix the skin "link to home page" to your %ENTRYWEB. You found it for KoalaSkin, This is a site-wide preference var %WIKILOGOURL
• For your web server, fix redirections so that when people go to $defaultUrlHost/wiki_dir and $defaultUrlHost/$scriptUrlPath they are redirected to %ENTRYWEB
  • For apache, it means declarations such as these (if wiki is on the URL /wiki on my machine: quoll.ilog.fr, where my %ENTRYWEB is Test)
    • Redirect /wiki/index.html http://quoll.ilog.fr/wiki/bin/view/Test/WebHome
    • Redirect /wiki/bin/index.html http://quoll.ilog.fr/wiki/bin/view/Test

Thank you Colas for this clever hack - but this is a hack. Proper way will be to have separate webs: Main as entry point, and User for twiki-related system info about users. No amount of hacking will cover this design deficiency. And it is recurring, many new Twiki admin are repeatedly asking for the same thing - nice entry point into Twiki.

I know it's not your fault, Colas - but what you proposed is root-level changes way above skill level of many Twiki admins, instead of adding simple variable (which might have same value as MAINWEB and will be no difference for old installations).

-- PeterMasiar - 27 May 2003