Question

EditUrlLooksBad

I am having this problem too -- on multiple browsers and OSes (Win IE, FF; Mac FF and Safari).

The EDITURL variable is not getting parsed; when I view source I see this:

<a href="%EDITURL%" class="but mb" accesskey="e">Edit this page</a>

I edited my templates to not use EDITURL and instead I manually append a timestamp to the edit link, but my installation shipped with the bad EDITURL variable.

My fix:

<a href='%SCRIPTURLPATH%/edit%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/%WEB%/%TOPIC%?t=%GMTIME{"$year$month$day$hours$minutes$seconds"}%' class="but mb" accesskey="e">Edit this page</a>

Any tips on how to fix this?

Environment

-- EllenBeldner - 19 Sep 2008

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

EDITURL is defined in TWiki.TWikiPreferences (now marked as 'legacy'). What do you have there?

-- ArthurClemens - 19 Sep 2008

The browser shouldn't matter, since it's the server that should do that substitution.

This is strange because the template for that doesn't use %EDITURL%. The relevant part of TWiki/templates/viewtopicactionbuttons.tmpl is as follows:

%TMPL:DEF{"edit_topic_link"}%<span><a href='%SCRIPTURL{"edit"}%/%WEB%/%TOPIC%?t=%GMTIME{"$epoch"}%%TMPL:P{"url_param_editaction"}%%IF{"context TinyMCEPluginEnabled" then="" else=";nowysiwyg=1"}%' rel='nofollow' %MAKETEXT{"title='Edit this topic text' accesskey='e'>&Edit"}%</a></span>%TMPL:END%

%TMPL:DEF{"raw_edit_link"}%<span><a href='%SCRIPTURL{"edit"}%/%WEB%/%TOPIC%?t=%GMTIME{"$epoch"}%%TMPL:P{"url_param_editaction"}%;nowysiwyg=1' rel='nofollow' %MAKETEXT{"title='Raw Edit this topic text' accesskey='w'>Ra&w edit"}%</a></span>%TMPL:END%

What does your look like? You might need to re-install that template?

-- SeanCMorgan - 22 Sep 2008

Closing this after more than 30 days of inactivity. Please feel free to re-open if needed.

-- PeterThoeny - 07 Nov 2008