I'm trying to follow the instructions, but I can't change ANY of the preferences! When I click on "edit", I get Change Access Denied. I looked in the documentation under simple authentication, but there is no .htaccess.txt file as it refers to, and I don't know how to build one to take the place of the one that should be there.

I'm really confused! (write to me at work, where I'm working on this... gwen@dm-partnersPLEASENOSPAM.com)

-- GwendolynPatton - 08 Dec 2000

Answer

You get the Change Access Denied message in case the topic is protected by the Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE and Set DENYTOPICCHANGE setting and you are not in the list (or group). See TWikiAccessControl.

In case your installation is not authenticated all users are TWikiGuest, so you should not write protect our topics before authentication is running. The .htaccess.txt is in the twiki/bin directory, TWikiInstallationGuide has more.

In case your installation is not authenticated and you have accidentially write protected a topic with a Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE setting you can recover by editing the topic from the shell.

-- PeterThoeny - 09 Dec 2000

Also

Try running the twiki/bin/testenv script to make sure that your data and pub directories are writable ( in my case by user nobody ). Look for some red text in the generated HTML which will warn you that something is amiss.

If you don't have write access, you will not be able to modify the Twiki.Main.WebPreferences even though you are running without authentication ( which I needed to do in order to add in a new topic ).

-- Ed Mcguigan - 03 Jan 2001 emcg@meritusaPLEASENOSPAM.net