Question

How do I configure TWiki so that the TWiki:Plugins/TablePlugin works with TWiki:TWiki/ShorterUrlCookbook?

I followed the instructions for shorter urls, but when a page with a table on it get shown and the user clicks on a column name to sort the table, he gets an oops:

Attention The "TWiki/TablePlugin/TWiki" web does not exist

The generated URL is: http://server/twiki/bin/oops/TWiki/TablePlugin/TWiki/TablePlugin?template=oopsaccessdenied;def=no_such_web;param1=view#sorted_table

The column's target URL is: http://server/TWiki/TablePlugin/TWiki/TablePlugin?sortcol=2;table=2;up=0#sorted_table

I tried to "fix" the problem, and made the following change to TablePlugin/Core.pm, around line 577 (sub handler):

        # Extract and attach existing parameters
        my $plist = $cgi->query_string();
        $plist =~ s/\;/\&/go;
        $plist =~ s/\&?sortcol.*up=[0-9]+\&?//go;
        $plist .= '&' if $plist;
#        $url = $cgi->url . $cgi->path_info() . '?' . $plist;
#        $url =~ s/\&/\&/go;
        $url = '?' . $plist;

In short, I remove everything before the query string from the URL, and the browser ends up getting a relative URL of the form ?sortcol=2;table=2;up=0#sorted_table, which apparently made the trick, but I don't know if this is the correct way to go about it.

I also commented the second line because of a bug I saw (check my comments at TWiki:Plugins/TablePluginDev near the end, on 28 Feb 2007).

I'm attaching my configure script output and httpd-wiki.conf.

Environment

-- JoseGPedro - 28 Feb 2007

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

Cold you please file a bug report at Bugs:TablePlugin if you feel that this has not been fixed in the latest release?

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Apr 2007

There's an open bug already, Bugs:Item5408, and a closed one at Bugs:Item2525 that bug 5408 says still didn't fix it.

I'm not using TWiki anymore since I left that job a long time ago, but I'm putting these pointers to the bugs here as this question seems to have been helpful to others.

Regards,

-- JoseGPedro - 2012-09-11