Question

how do we undo the topic re-name ? I have renamed the WebHome topic and linked all the related topics as well. But now , when a user first access the site...http://myurl.com/bin/view .....he gets a page "topic not exists" page...as below... Main . { Home? | Users | Groups | Offices | Changes | Index | Search | Go }

NOTE: This Wiki topic does not exist yet

also all the "home" links are not found(Following ?)

Please help. Pran

• TWiki version:dec 2001
• Perl version:5.6.1
• Web server:Apache 1.3.27
• Server OS:W2k Professional
• Web browser: IE 5.5
• Client OS: W2K professional

-- TWikiGuest - 04 Dec 2002

Answer

There should be a 'put it back' link at the bottom of the renamed page. If for some reason that doesn't work, just do a rename of this page back to WebHome. Or you could probably edit TWiki.cfg and templates to get it to work with the new name, but it would probably need to be in all webs and quite hard to do this.

It's usually easier to create a new page, e.g. WebInfo, that has all the detailed info on WebHome, and then move most of the contents of WebHome into WebInfo, rather than renaming pages. See http://donkin.org/ for an example.

-- RichardDonkin - 04 Dec 2002

In case you want to keep the new name you need to fix some remaining references. As you found out, the web specific links on top is one place: Edit the twiki/lib/TWiki.cfg file and fix the $mainTopicname variable, it defines the %HOMETOPIC% variable used in the WEBTOPICLIST setting in the WebPreferences of each TWiki web.

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Dec 2002