Question

I have three TWiki 4.1.1 installations (dev/test/prod), each on a different server. The last one (the dev box) I did treats wikiwords for non-existent topics as plain text. Not only is no link provided, and no formatting applied, but when I view the source, I see no tag at all for the wikiword. So, instead of

It's all <a class="twikiNewLink" href="/twiki/bin/edit/Sandbox/FooBar" rel="nofollow" title="Create this topic">FooBar</a>, apparently.

It's all FooBar, apparently.

It looks like there is a flag somewhere that is telling this TWiki to ignore non-existent wikiwords. I spent hours trying to find the answer in the code, and found the _renderWikiWord routine in Render.pm that clearly has a statement of the "only render non existing wiki words if a flag is set" variety:

    if( $doLinkToMissingPages ) {
        # CDot: disabled until SuggestSingularNotPlural is resolved
        # if ($singular && $singular ne $theTopic) {
        #     #unshift( @topics, $singular);
        # }
        return _renderNonExistingWikiWord($this, $theWeb, $theTopic,
                                          $theLinkText);

Clearly something is different on my dev box, and I have certainly done different things on it than on either the test or prod boxes, but I need help figuring it out. Any suggestions where to look next?

Environment

-- JohnWorsley - 03 Apr 2007

Answer

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Attached my configure output.

-- JohnWorsley - 03 Apr 2007

Do you have a NOAUTOLINK preferences setting set to on?

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Apr 2007

Well, I knew I didn't because autolinking to existing topics works fine, but I checked all my preferences topics anyway, so now I can say with total certainty, no.

I do have three plugins installed on my dev box that are not installed on the other two servers: FlowchartPlugin, MediaWikiTablePlugin, and SectionalEditPlugin. I will keep trying to identify differences.

-- JohnWorsley - 03 Apr 2007

I just upgraded to TWiki 4.1.2, and now the formatting for autolinking is working normally. Marking answered.

-- JohnWorsley - 09 Apr 2007