Question

I upgraded our TWiki installation to 4.0.3. After doing so, the pages all looked Really Bad. I reinstalled PatternSkin and that cleaned up most of the problems. However, the position of the TWiki logo and the Jump and Search boxes is still weird. Suggestions anyone?

Our TWiki is here: http://cfcl.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

I'd also appreciate a good explanation for why I have to explicitly reinstall PatternSkin following any update. :-(

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-- VickiBrown - 29 Jun 2006

Answer

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How did you upgrade? I know when I did a fresh install and moved the data/ and pub/ directories over, things looked really strange until I discovered I had overwritten all of the new PatternSkin files with the old ones from my previous install Your site doesn't have the same problems I recall having, however the entire look of the PatternSkin you're using looks like its from Cairo (TWiki 3.x). You say you reinstalled PatternSkin, are you sure you installed the correct version?

I have some steps to ensure that you have the correct attachment files (the pub/ directory) for the version of TWiki you installed, however if you reinstalled PatternSkin I believe there are other files that would end up out of sync.

At this point I'm not sure what to suggest.

Edit: My bad, I completly missed your comment about using UpgradeTWiki in PostUpgradeWoes.

-- JasonHill - 29 Jun 2006

I upgraded using the "Upgrade" script. That never copies quite everything but I patched up my Users, Main./WebHome and AdminGroup files from the previous installation.

The PatternSkin I use is downloaded from the PaternSkin web page. It doesn't seem to have been updated recently. :-(

-- VickiBrown - 29 Jun 2006

I suspect this is because ArthurClemens maintains it SVN, if you have shell access to the box your twiki is hosted on and you have subversion installed, you can check out the latest version with this command:

svn co http://svn.twiki.org:8181/svn/twiki/branches/TWikiRelease04x00/twikiplugins/PatternSkin

That will give you a PatternSkin directory that contains everything you would typically find in the zip.

-- JasonHill - 29 Jun 2006

I have updated the zip package.

-- ArthurClemens - 29 Jun 2006

It might be simply an issue of cached css files in your browser. Try to force-reload the page.

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Jul 2006