Question

In our TWiki, the list of TWiki Webs in every WebLeftBar ends with a disabled or unclickable item for Trash and directly below that, a question mark standing alone on a line. Does anyone know what this question mark is, why it is there, whether it is supposed to be there, and perhaps how to get rid of it? Any user can click it to edit an (empty) topic called Trash:WebHome and this seems to us to be a tempting target for graffitists.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

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-- ElisabethAtems - 07 Aug 2006

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.

The list of webs is usually assembled by TWiki scanning the store for visible webs. Here's how it does it:

for each directory under data/, do
   if the directory contains WebPreferences.txt, then
      if the TWiki perms on the web allow it to be read, then
         if the web is *not* set NOSEARCHALL
            list it in the left bar.

1. The Trash web has no WebHome topic
2. The Trash web is set to be readable in WebPreferences, but the WebHome topic is set to be unreadable.

You might investigate these possibilities. If you want to prevent anyone from seeing the web in the left bar, then add

• Set NOSEARCHALL = on

-- CrawfordCurrie - 08 Aug 2006