Question

I have several TWiki webs, and most everything works just fine. However, I have some webs that, when I go to their WebHome topic, their links do not resolve (that is I get a new topic question mark). The WebHome pages for the resolving and non-resolving webs are nearly identical and (at this point) extremely simple. For example, both pages have this line:

---++ Site Tools of the %<nop>WIKITOOLNAME%.%<nop>WEB% Web

The directories have identical ownerships and permissions, the files (WebHome.txt) have identical ownerships and permisssions, the names are proper WikiWords (At least I think: TsunamiTWiki and MuChaSu). Yet the resulting code (from View->Source) for the TsunamiTWiki file looks like

Site Tools of the <a class="twikiLink" href="/cgi-bin/common/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TsunamiTWiki">Tsunami TWiki</a> Web 

but the MuChaSu line renders as

Site Tools of the <span class="twikiNewLink" style='background : #FFFFCE;'><font color="#0000FF">Mu Cha Su</font><a href="/cgi-bin/common/twiki/bin/edit/TWiki/MuChaSu?topicparent=MuChaSu.WebHome"><sup>?</sup></a></span>Web

What am I missing? (This behavior happens no matter which skin I use.)

Environment

-- HughWilliams - 14 Jun 2005

Answer

I'm not sure I understand the problem. Are you saying you have two separate webs - TWikiTsunami and MuChaSu that aren't able to resolve/view their WebHome page properly?

How did you create these 2 webs in the first place? The code results you have provided makes it look like the webs are nested within the TWiki web. You might want to take a look at MegaTWiki for more information about hierarchically nested webs.

Also I think in Cairo the documentation implies/states you can use WikiWords for web names, but I've never had any success with that and stay with the old way of doing it - all lower case (except for the first letter). The TWikiTsunami web name is also over the limit of 10 characters.

-- SueLocke - 26 Jun 2005

I'm having a similar problem installing twiki on an ISP hosted server, except virtually all of my links are not resolving. The files are there, when I click the question mark, I go to edit mode, then can save it, and view the page. But links on pages refering to any other page are not resolving. On my ISP I do not have access to the chown command; I think it may be something related to that (permissions themselves are fine; not sure how to tell who 'owns' the files)...

-- AllanNienhuis - 26 Dec 2005

solved my problem. I was using relative paths to my data, etc folders in TWiki.cfg. Once I changed them to absolute paths everything worked fine.

-- AllanNienhuis - 26 Dec 2005