Question

Saving Twiki pages after install is resulting in RCS error regarding file/directory not found for an installation on friend's website. Links displayed by the TWiki error page listed what should have been "/path/to/~domain/page/in/twiki" as "/path/to/domain/page/in/twiki". I first verified that all my config entries properly contained the tilde; they did. I then moved the web root into a folder that did not contain the tilde '~' character preceding for the domain and the error went away entirely. Changing back to a path that used '~' duplicated the same error immediately. Full recursive grep of twiki directory showed 0 instances where it might have been hardcoded incorrectly, the only appearance was in the cached error page returned by my server; the same held true for my httpd.conf.

JohnKrinkleSandbox (oops)
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Topic save error
During save of file JohnKrinkleSandbox an error was found by the version control system. Please notify your TWiki administrator.
/usr/bin/ci -q -l -m'none' -t-none -w'converge' '/var/www/htdocs/truncated.org/twiki/data/Sandbox/JohnKrinkleSandbox.txt' 2>&1 ci: /var/www/htdocs/truncated.org/twiki/data/Sandbox/RCS/JohnKrinkleSandbox.txt: No such file or directory

Go back in your browser and save your changes locally.
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Topic: JohnKrinkleSandbox . { OK }
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Environment

-- SeanRaymond - 22 Oct 2005

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.

I stumbled across this myself the other day. The reason is that the ~ gets filtered for "security" reasons. You can try removing ~ from the name filter expression in TWiki.cfg (securityRegex? something like that). No guarantees that it will work, though.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 30 Nov 2005