SID-00475: Natskin errors

Status:	Unanswered	TWiki version:	4.2.3	Perl version:	5.8.8
Category:	NatSkin	Server OS:		Last update:	16 years ago

Hi I intend to install all the features in NatSkin. So I read through the pre-requisites and found out that NatSkinPlugin should be installed along with all other dependent plugins.

I installed NatSkinPlugin (along with all other dependencies) and managed to see a good welcome change.

After that I installed NatSkin manually by ftp'ing all the required files in correct directories and suddenly my website went crazy ... I now get the following error.

%IFDEFINEDTHEN{"%IFACCESS{"Main.WebHome" type="change"}%" as="1"}% %FIDEFINED% %IFDEFINED{"%METAKEYWORDS%" then="$n"}% %IFDEFINED{"%METAAUTHOR%" glue="off" then=""}% %IFDEFINED{"%METADESCRIPTION%" then=""}% %IFDEFINEDTHEN{"/wiki/pub/Main/WebPreferences/favicon.ico"}% %FIDEFINED% %GETSKINSTYLE% %WEBCOMPONENT{"WebHtmlHead"}%

Copyright © by the contributing authors. All material on this collaboration platform is the property of the contributing authors. Ideas, requests, problems regarding TWiki? Send feedback %IFDEFINEDTHEN{"$percntWEBSYNDICATION$percnt"}% %$nopWEBSYNDICATION% %ELSEDEFINED% Syndicate this site RSSATOM %FIDEFINED%

I can not even go to my preferences and remove the skin. I tried deleting all the files that I added for NatSkin but it still gives the same problem.

On the bottomleft corner of the browser I get two javascript errors: 1) Line: 37 Char:1 Error: Object expected Code: 0 URL:http://wikindian.com/wiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

2)Line: 26 Char:1 Error: Object expected Code: 0 URL:http://wikindian.com/wiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

Any idea whats going on here? Any inputs will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Sushil

-- SushilRapatwar - 2009-08-11

Did you install all following

TWiki::Plugins::BreadCrumbsPlugin
TWiki::Plugins::FilterPlugin
TWiki::Plugins::FlexWebListPlugin
TWiki::Plugins::GluePlugin
TWiki::Plugins::IfDefinedPlugin
TWiki::Plugins::JQueryPlugin
TWiki::Plugins::NatEditContrib
TWiki::Plugins::RedDotPlugin
TWiki::Plugins::JQueryTwistyPlugin

I suggest to verify the installation of all above plugins and restore the removed skin related files...

NatSkin is complicated when it comes for the installation but gives good look and feel.

BTW - if you want to view your content/site with different skin/or before changing the skin of the complete site, you can pass variable e.g. skin=pattern

See http://wikindian.com/wiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome?skin=pattern

or http://wikindian.com/wiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome?skin=plain

-- SopanShewale - 2009-08-12

Discussion and Answer

I restored all the plugins and also cross checked individual files in the plugins.

However, I still get the same problem. This is scary as I have to get it live by this Saturday and didnt know that NatSkin will start giving problems.

I can view the site by http://wikindian.com/wiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome?skin=pattern

But I cannot edit it and remove the skin=nat parameter. Because whenever I edit it, it throws following error: %IFDEFINEDTHEN{"/wiki/pub/Main/WebPreferences/favicon.ico"}% %FIDEFINED% %GETSKINSTYLE% %WEBCOMPONENT{"WebHtmlHead"}% Copyright © by the contributing authors. All material on this collaboration platform is the property of the contributing authors. Ideas, requests, problems regarding TWiki? Send feedback %IFDEFINEDTHEN{"$percntWEBSYNDICATION$percnt"}% %$nopWEBSYNDICATION% %ELSEDEFINED% Syndicate this site RSSATOM %FIDEFINED%

This is kind of annoying. Any specific step that I am missing here?

-- SushilRapatwar - 2009-08-13

you should be passing ?skin=pattern with every URL, add this parameter when you see the above error. you should be able to change the SKIN variable

-- SopanShewale - 2009-08-15

I was having the same problem, and I solved it by going to the Plugins section of the configure script and making sure that all of the Plugins had a checkmark next to them (even though it said they were enabled already, the box was not checked). After saving the changes NatSkin worked.

I'm running TWiki 4.3.1 and Perl 5.10.1.

-- ChristianThibodeau - 2009-09-04

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