SID-01061: Can't add a New Web: "You must have ROOTCHANGE access".

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.1	Perl version:	5.8.8
Category:	CategoryAccessControl	Server OS:	CentOS 5.5	Last update:	15 years ago

Hi. I try to add a new Web.

"You must have ROOTCHANGE access to create a top-level web (one with no parent)"

# grep -r 'Set ALLOWROOTCHANGE = ' /var/www/twiki|grep -v ,v 
/var/www/twiki/data/TWiki/TWikiPreferences.txt: * Set ALLOWROOTCHANGE = Main.TWikiAdminGroup 
#

My username and TwikiName are already in /var/www/twiki/data/Main/TWikiAdminGroup.txt. So why can't I create a top level Web and how do I fix this, please?

-- AlekseyTsalolikhin - 2010-12-18

Discussion and Answer

Not sure, that should work. Is your WikiName listed in the Main.TWikiGroups topic? That topics shows the actual users TWiki thinks are in the groups, e.g. you can spot an issue with group settings in group topics.

Also, try to login as "admin" to test if you can create a web.

As a workaround you can manually create a web:

% cd twiki
% cp -pr data/_default data/Foobar
% cp -pr pub/_default pub/Foobar

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-12-19

Dear Peter,

Thanks, your reply sorted me out. I was actually looking at the wrong directory, /var/www/twiki -- I had copied everything to /var/www/twiki5 when I upgraded from 4.x to 5, so I could go back to 4 if I had to. So I should have been looking at /var/www/twiki5.

Now I removed /var/www/twiki so I don't confuse myself again.

Then I added my WikiName to the TWikiGroups topic as you suggested, and I'm good to go. Thanks!!

Sincerely,

Aleksey

-- AlekseyTsalolikhin - 2010-12-22

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