SID-02367: Making a Web readonly

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.2.0	Perl version:	5.8.8
Category:	CategoryAccessControl	Server OS:	OpenSuse Linux 2.6.22	Last update:	7 years ago

After upgrading wiki to a newer version I want to keep the old one alive but make it readonly. I already read http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/ReadOnlyAndMirrorWebs but I have trouble setting things up. What exactly is meant by =Setting the site's identifier (a few character long alpha-numeric string) to $TWiki::cfg{ReadOnlyAndMirrorWebs}{SiteName} enables this feature. = and how do I do it? I also did Set MASTERSITENAME=ro in the WebPreferences of my Web

-- Michael Werber - 2018-08-03

Discussion and Answer

The ReadOnlyAndMirrorWebs doc applies to multi-site installation in conjunction with MetadataRepository.

To lock down the webs of your old TWiki installation simply go to each web's WebPreferences, and restrict access to it, for example with a Set ALLOWWEBCHANGE = TWikiAdminGroup bullet.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2018-08-03

This worked well for me, thanks a lot. Is there also a way to change the text of the access-denied-page? Would be great to show a link to the new Twiki

-- Michael Werber - 2018-08-03

The access-denied page can be changed by modifying the template that is used to create the access-denied page. I think the one you're interested in oopsaccessdenied.tmpl which is found in a templates directory in your twiki installation directory (/somewhere/twiki/templates). This template pulls the message from messages.tmpl (located in the same folder).

I think the template definition (TMPL:DEF) that you want to modify in messages.tmpl will be TMPL:DEF{"topic_access"}.

-- Jani Hamalainen - 2019-03-15

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