Question

• We want to move our wiki from one server to another.
• How can we easily lock the whole wiki? We do not want anybody to loose changes if somebody is just editing when we are moving the wiki.
• Can we recognize which topis are in edit mode?
• Can we block the edit script?
• Thanks for your help.

Environment

-- KirstinWeber - 25 Jul 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.

A very simple solution might be to post on the main page of your wiki that the server will be down for maintenance at a certain time (i.e. early in the morning / late in the evening). You can change the preferences of each web so that only TWikiAdmins can log in - thus preventing people from viewing any information / editing any information. Then switch back the user rights later on. An example of the configuration you may want to do in WebPreferences could be:

Set DENYWEBVIEW = 
Set ALLOWWEBVIEW = TWikiAdminGroup 
Set DENYWEBCHANGE = 
Set ALLOWWEBCHANGE = 
Set DENYWEBRENAME = 
Set ALLOWWEBRENAME = 

You could use the following in Main.TWikiPreferences to display a message at the top of each page:

• Set BROADCASTMESSAGE =

  NOTE: Edit and Attach will be disabled today between 05:00 PM and 06:00 PM PDT (00:00 to 01:00 GMT) for a scheduled TWiki maintenance.

Assuming your skin supports that.

You could also use Apache to deny access to the edit and attach scripts, which might be easier if you have a lot of webs and don't want to set the preferences of each one.

-- AndrewRJones - 26 Jul 2007

Thanks for your help.

-- KirstinWeber - 27 Jul 2007