Question

Hi all - I've been tinkering with a corporate TWiki install, and am having trouble with new webs based on other templates than _default

Our server is Linux-based. I believe it is Enterprise Red Hat.

I've tried the XpTrackerPlugin & BlogAddOn custom web templates. I have two issues.

1) These two custom TemplateWebs do not come with the standard pile of topics from _default - are they supposed to, or am I supposed to merge them together at some point?

I was able to create a new web using ManagingWebs based on the _default_XpTracker template - it did come with its own WebPreferences, but no WebHome, WebLeftBar, etc. I'm just wondering what the "standard" approach to this situation is, or if I'm encountering an unintended situation.

2) The _BlogAddOn template isn't showing up in my ManagingWebs at all, and if I try to hit a page in the template dir I know exists (like BlogPost), my TWiki tells me that web doesn't exist. The same situation works perfectly fine with pages in the _default_XpTracker dir.

I used the configure automatic install for both XpTrackerPlugin and BlogAddOn. Checking the dirs on the server (that I don't have much past read-only access to) revealed a slight difference in file properties - I don't know if it matters.

XpTrackerPlugin sample file:

-rw-rw----  1 apache apache  360 Jan 15  2007 AllIterations.txt

BlogAddOn sample file:

-rw-r-----  1 apache apache 2381 Jun 26 17:55 BlogAddOnHome.txt

So there's one w's difference - I'm not exactly a Linux guru yet, so no idea if that'll help explain anything.

A possibly related issue encountered with both XpTrackerPlugin and an attempted copy-paste hack of the BlogAddOn is that trying to use functionality that is supposed to create a new page based on a template (like this very question submit process) instead sends the user to edit mode of the template or simply WebHome itself. I'm not sure that's related - but if it rings a bell to anybody...

Those are my two questions for now - I'm hoping this will be something obvious that'll ring a bell for somebody. If not I can try to dig deeper and get some info from our Linux sys admin, if anybody can think of something I can ask him.

Thanks in advance - let me know if there are any other details I can provide.

Environment

-- RasmusPraestholm - 21 Nov 2007

Answer

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-- PeterThoeny - 01 Jan 2008