SID-01766: What happens after renaming 'WebHome'

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.0	Perl version:	5.12.3
Category:	CategoryEditing	Server OS:	Solaris 11	Last update:	12 years ago

Dear TWiki support,

Our website consists many webs and sub-webs. Recently, I renamed 'WebHome' of one sub-web to another name, for example, RenamedWebHome. During renaming, I chose to scan links in all public webs. After I renamed this topic, All topics of other webs have a same new parent topic: RenamedWebHome!

Please advise what can be done to restore the website. We could easily roll back topic versions in twiki but, in my case, can we revert my renaming action?

Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks!

-- Guangyu Shi - 2013-07-17

Discussion and Answer

Looks like a bug that needs to be fixed. Feel free to file a bug report at TWikibugs:WebHome if you can describe it so that we can reproduce it.

To fix, look into your twiki/data/log201307.txt log to find what topics have been changed on this rename, then either restore those topics from backup, or recover the previous version of the topics, or delete the top revision of the topics. To recover to the previous version follow the "More topic actions" link. To delete the top revision, login as an admin, edit the topic and add a cmd=delRev to the URL - saving the topic with this parameter will delete the top revision permanently, so use with care.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-07-18

Thanks, Peter. A bug has been filed at: http://develop.twiki.org/~twiki4/cgi-bin/view/Bugs/Item7304

-- Guangyu Shi - 2013-07-22

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