Question

I had it working, except (.htpasswd) and then I followed through the steps to add new webs and add statistics tracking for them

It looked like it was working but when I went back to Main I got some kind of editing error (I'm afraid I don't remember the exact words)

I thought that editing the TWikiPreferences (WIKIWEBLIST) or the TWikiWebsTable might have created locks that were causing the problem so I deleted the .lock files from a command prompt

BIG MISTAKE!

Now I get: TWiki . Main . WebHome Main  |  TWiki05x01  |  Sandbox SupportGuidelines  |  Changes  |  Index  |  Search

NOTE: This Wiki topic does not exist yet

If you would like to create this page:

... (more text)

Help!

-- BrianJohnson - 21 Jul 2001

Answer

I'm assuming that %WEBTOPICLIST% is displayed i.e. not expanded as normal?

Deleting the .lock files won't have caused the problem - it's possible you deleted some other files as well, e.g. WebHome.txt or WebPreferences.txt or maybe TWikiPreferences.txt. Check the list of files that you have under Main, particularly any called Web* or TWiki*, and compare them to the list in the TWiki documentation at TWiki.TWikiInstallationGuide on your server.

Also, do a diff of your wikicfg.pm against the distributed wikicfg.pm for TWiki Dec 2000 (use TWiki.cfg if that's the config file for your version). See VariablesNotEvaluating - I had variables not being expanded due to a wikicfg.pm setup problem, i.e. a single variable not being set.

It would help if you specified the TWiki version, web server version, etc, as in the template for new topics.

-- RichardDonkin - 22 Jul 2001