Question

What's the best way to merge two webs within a twiki installation? I want them to become one web without moving every page manually.

Environment

-- DortheLuebbert - 01 Sep 2003

Answer

As long as you have root access to the server (or similar), I would make the changes outside of TWiki — simply copy the <pagename>.txt and <pagename>.txt,v files from the web (directory) you want to merge from into the web (directory) you want to merge to (or from both directories to a new directory with the new Webname).

-- RandyKramer - 01 Sep 2003

Randy is correct, or more simple, move the txt and txt,v files from the old web in twiki/data to the merged web. Watch out for the file permissions, they need to be writable by the cgi bin user. The Web* files exist in both webs, they can be ignored or merged manually from the browser.

Don't forget to move also the attachments, e.g. move all dirs under twiki/pub/Oldweb to twiki/pub/Mergedweb (or whatever the name is)

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Sep 2003