Question

Hi, I want to create a new TWiki installation and move some webs of another TWiki installation into the new one because these webs fit better to the new one.

• Can I simply copy the webs to the new TWiki installation or do I have to adjust some files? I do not know what exactly happens if I create a new web (for example to which files the new web name is written etc).
• Can I simply remove the web in the other TWiki installation or do I have to remove entries in some files?

Thanks for your help!

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-- KirstinWeber - 08 Jan 2008

Answer

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In what I consider one of top under-appreciated virtues of TWiki's file-based system, you can move a TWiki web to another TWiki installation by simply moving the web's associated data and pub directories. Nothing else is required. If you already have a web with the same name in the new installation, you can move individual topic files (and assoicated directories under pub if the the topics have attachments).

-- LynnwoodBrown - 08 Jan 2008

Make sure to fix also file permissions and ownership.

-- PeterThoeny - 09 Jan 2008

Thanks for your help.

-- KirstinWeber - 09 Jan 2008