Question

I'm having the same problem as: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/WebTopicCreatorNotWorking

I want to create a new topic in a web. So I click on the "Create New Topic" link in the left bar and fill out the form to create a new topic called TestTopic, it jumps to the Main web and says "Note: This topic does not exist". When I click on the bottom link for 'Create TestTopic' it loops back to WebTopicCreator and repeats the same process. There doesn't seem to be a way to create a new topic using the WebTopicCreator form.

Unlike the previous answer to this question, this is an unmodified install of TWiki 4.1.2.

Environment

-- TWikiGuest - 17 May 2007

Answer

If you answer a question - or have a question you asked answered by someone - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status is in a drop-down list below the edit box.

What skin are you using? CreateTopic should jump direct to edit after the form is completed; it sounds like your version is jumping to view. Also, do you have write access to that web?

-- CrawfordCurrie - 18 May 2007

Ahh thanks that got me thinking. Mine is jumping straight to view because I had a redirect option in my Apache config. I wanted the root URL address to jump straight to a subweb instead of the Main subweb. So I did something like: RedirectMatch /$ http://address/twiki/bin/view/SubWeb RedirectMatch /twiki(/([A-Z].*)?)?$ http://address/twiki/bin/view$1

Getting rid of that fixed my topic generation problem. Thanks!

-- TWikiGuest - 18 May 2007

Happened to me too. In my case it was an Apache RewriteRule - I was trying to redirect http://server-name to the Main Wiki Home ... first attempt was too generic: RewriteRule /*/$ twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome [R,L] second attempt is checking that the string "/twiki/" does Not appear in path of request: RewriteRule ^(?:(?!/twiki/).)*$\r?\n? twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome [R,L]

-- TWikiGuest - 09 Jul 2007