SID-01260: Turning a whole Twiki installation into a single Web

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.2.0	Perl version:	5.10.0
Category:	CategoryInstallation	Server OS:	Linux km 2.6.18	Last update:	14 years ago

Hello,

We used to have two Twikis up. After a while we decided to just have one and demote the other one into just a Twiki web. As of now, I only have the backup of the demoted Twiki. I tried copying over the twiki/dir and twiki/pub contents of the demoted Twiki but the contents doesn't show up. Is there any other configuration file I should change?

Thanks in advance!

-- MeahBaltazar - 2011-09-01

Discussion and Answer

Hi,

the following should do (to make it easier: "TWIKI" means your new combined twiki and "OLD_TWIKI" the twiki you want to demote):

First you have to enable subwebs in your configure under "!StoreSettings -> EnableHierarchicalWebs". Then create a new web (NEWWEB) in your TWIKI were you're going to store your OLD_TWIKI in.

Now you have to copy from OLD_TWIKI/data/ to TWIKI/data/NEWWEB/, but you can not just copy everything! Only copy the folders of the webs you created in OLD_TWIKI. So leave out Sandbox, TWiki, _default and _empty. If you have created files in that web you have to copy them manually. After that copy from OLD_TWIKI/pub/ to TWIKI/pub/NEWWEB/, in same manor (without Sandbox, Main, usw.).

Now you should have the data of OLD_TWIKI in NEWWEB and every web from OLD_TWIKI should be a subweb of TWIKI.

so the trick is to enable the subwebs and be careful what you copy.

Hope that bring's you closer to the solution,

-- CarlaReitzenstein - 2011-09-01

If you need just one (or a few webs) of the old TWiki you can copy just those to the new TWiki. Say, in your old TWiki you have a web called Marketing that you want to preserve. Copy twiki/data/Marketing/ and twiki/pub/Marketing from the old TWiki to the new TWiki, both below twiki/data/ and twiki/pub/, respectively. If there is a name clash you can copy & rename "Marketing" to something else.

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-09-01

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