Question

Hi!

We've got a web - let's call it Apple web - and because we now also publish articles about pears we would like to rename it to Fruit web. Using the rename tool from the WebPreferences topic of this web, I managed to rename the web and all the links pointing to topics in this web - so far so good. However, if I leave all the tickboxes in the rename tool under the heading = Change links in topics that refer to= enabled, it also renames all occurrences of Apple in the titles and subtitles of these topics. This is of course not what we want. Is this a bug of the rename tool or is there a way around?

Thanks for your help!

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-- MartinKaufmann - 17 Sep 2007

Answer

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That looks like a bug in the rename tool. Please file a bug report.

Options to fix this:

• edit every topic (time consuming)
• install and use the GlobalReplacePlugin
• restore from backup and rename the web on the shell level: SSH login to the server, rename twiki/data/Apple to twiki/data/Fruit, and rename twiki/pub/Apple to twiki/pub/Fruit. You need to fix links pointing into the Apple web manually.

-- PeterThoeny - 18 Sep 2007

Thanks! I filed a bug report under Bugs:Item4664.

About the options you're suggesting: The first and last option aren't viable in my situation as they are very time-consuming (the web isn't very large but still). As a next step I going to check out the GlobalReplacePlugin.

BTW I had a backup - so it was straight-forward to restore the old setup (before the rename).

-- MartinKaufmann - 18 Sep 2007