Question

I have successfully migrated a TWiki from one server to a new server with your latest software. I want to be able to "turn off" The TWiki on one machine while I prepare it on the other. I guess this can be accomplished in Apache, but was wondering if there was a TWiki way of redirecting access to any TWiki page to either the new Twiki on the new machine or a web page outside the realm of the TWiki.

Environment

-- TWikiGuest - 12 May 2005

Answer

You can add this to any topic you want to have redirected to a new URL:

This topic has moved to http://new.server/cgi-bin/view/%WEB%/%TOPIC%, you will be redirected in 15 seconds
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="15; URL=http://new.server/cgi-bin/view/%WEB%/%TOPIC%">

This will redirect to the URL on the new server after 15 seconds. If you want to have this for all topics you can create a new skin that does the redirect and set it as the default skin in your TWikiPreferences.

How to create a redirect skin:

• In twiki/templates copy view.print.tmpl to view.redirect.tmpl
• Edit view.redirect.tmpl and
  • add above meta http-equiv="refresh" tag to the head section
  • and replace:
    %TEXT%
%META{"form"}%
%META{"attachments"}%
    with this:
    This topic has moved to http://new.server/cgi-bin/view/%WEB%/%TOPIC%, you will be redirected in 15 seconds

-- PeterThoeny - 12 May 2005