Question

Hello everybody, because where I use TWiki we are relying on donated hardware which is not exactly cutting edge I would very much like to use the PublicCacheAddOn.

So far the access to the TWiki is only granted to selected people but all of these have access to all webs and topics such that this can be handled by Apache authentication.

However, in the near future we are likely to have sub groups which are only allowed to access certain areas. I was planning to organize this by using different Webs. Unfortunately, restricted read access is not compatible with the PublicCacheAddOn.

Therefore I am now thinking about installing several TWiki installations in parallel each for one of the groups (which will not be many).

My questions are now:

• Is it possible at all to run different TWiki installations in parallel or will there be conflicts?
• What are the disadvantages compared to different Webs? Two are obvious to me:
  • more disc space
  • Linking between the different installations is only possible via urls not using TWiki syntax.

Are there more disadvantages?

Thanks for your help Lutz

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-- LutzGehlen - 01 Jul 2008

Answer

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Linking you already mention.

But using a good Interwikis syntax it may not be that bad.

More serious issues is in searching. Not just simple word searching but formatted searcing and the cool applications you can make with these will only work within the same TWiki.

You can by using symbolic linking let two twiki installations share some common webs. All you need to do is link to the webs directory in data and in pub from one to the other.

There is nothing technically that prevents having several TWikis on the same server.

-- KennethLavrsen - 03 Jul 2008

Dear Kenneth, thanks for your reply. Searching would not be an important problem for us since there are not many people who would have access to multiple TWikis anyway. The sharing of webs is an interesting point though. We are in the discussion right know what the priorities are and what the best solution will be. Your answer clarifies our options.

Thanks again, Lutz

-- LutzGehlen - 08 Jul 2008