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MoinWikiToTWikiAddOn Add-On

This is a command line tool to import MoinWiki pages and MoinWiki images/attachments into TWiki. It attempts to convert MoinWiki syntax into equivalent TWiki syntax. It also attempts to convert MoinWiki hierarchies into TWiki hierarchies. So a MoinWiki page like:

  • Grandparent/Parent/OurPage
will be converted into TWiki page OurPage with a parent of Parent. The only exception is if there are MoinWiki pages like:
  • Grandparent/Parent1/OurData
  • Grandparent/Parent2/OurData
where the actual MoinWiki pages have identical names ( OurPage). In this case the TWiki pages created would be Parent1OurData and Parent2OurData (so the parent name is prepended to the front of the TWiki page name).

Other features provides:

  1. This script creates a new MoinWiki page called CurrentWikiIndex which contains links to all MoinWiki pages converted.
  2. This script creates a new TWiki page called ConvertIndexWiki which contains links to all new TWiki pages. This allows you to have side-by-side browsers showing MoinWiki pages and TWiki pages making it easy to see any differences in formating
  3. This script creates an Apache mapping file that can be used by an Apache configuration file allowing Apache to easily map between MoinWiki URLs and TWiki URLs.

Add-On Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this add-on. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the add-on on the server where TWiki is running.

  • Download the ZIP file from the Add-on Home (see below)
  • Unzip MoinWikiToTWikiAddOn.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:
File: Description:
data/TWiki/MoinWikiToTWikiAddOn.txt Add-on topic
tools/moin2twiki.pl convert script
  • Edit file tools/moin2twiki.pl updating the following three (3) variables:
    1. $TWikiHome - Change to point to the top level of your TWiki installation
    2. $TWikiWeb - The TWiki web where you want the MoinWiki pages copied into
    3. $moinPages - Change to point to where your MoinWiki pages are located
  • Create a new TWiki web with the name specified in $TWikiWeb
  • Now just run tools/moin2twiki.pl
  • Optionally look at the created TWiki page $TWikiPage/CurrentWikiIndex and the page created in MoinWiki CurrentWikiIndex.

How to run

After editing tools/moin2twiki.pl just run the script and you are done.

Optional Apache configuration setup

If you desire to set Apache up such that the same MoinWiki URLs work in the TWiki environment, the following Apache configuration can be used as a template to set this up.

    RewriteMap moinToTwiki txt:/var/www/TWiki/moin2TWikiMapping.txt
    # If not /bin and not /pub then it doesn't appear to be a TWiki url so
    # it is probably an old Moin url so we map to the TWiki name.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/bin/.*
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/pub/.*
    RewriteRule (.*) ${moinToTwiki:$1} [R]

Known Issues

If a MoinWiki page has a line with multiple {{{ }}} constructs, this convert script does not handle this correctly. The script is designed to only handle a single set of {{{ }}} per line.

Add-On Info

  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = MoinWiki to TWiki conversion tool

Add-on Author: TWiki:Main.TaitCyrus
Copyright: © 2010, TWiki:Main.TaitCyrus
License: GPL (GNU General Public License)
Add-on Version: 2010-06-11 (V1.000)
Change History:
2010-06-11: Initial version
TWiki Dependency: $TWiki::Plugins::VERSION 1.1 (TWiki 4.0)
CPAN Dependencies: none
Other Dependencies: none
Perl Version: 5.8.8
Add-on Home: http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/MoinWikiToTWikiAddOn
Feedback: http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/MoinWikiToTWikiAddOnDev
Appraisal: http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/MoinWikiToTWikiAddOnAppraisal

Related Topic: TWikiAddOns

-- TWiki:Main/TaitCyrus - 2010-06-17

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