Question

Hi,

I don't know why, but I have two weird problems on my twiki site.

First, for a given topic, I realized its parent topic was not good anymore, and this topic could not be read! The characters inside were something like what you can find when you open with a text editor a binary file. This is really weird because I always changed this topic through the wiki...

The second problem was kind of the same: basically, a given css file was not correctly read anymore (and so it messed up the whole site). I opened the given css file, and I realized a whole section of it was not readable, and my text editor (kate) considered it as a binary file, not a text file.

Moreover, there is something I really don't understand. I realized that my topic was messed up, as well as my css file. So I rolled back to a previous version for my topic (by copying and pasting text), and I changed the css file using a version I had locally. After doing that, I checked the site, and everything was just fine: the topic well displayed, the css file considered as a text file and rendering everything as it ought to. Then, nobody didn't touch anything, and a couple of hours later, everything was messed up again!!

Does anyone have any idea of what is going on?

I don't know if it is relevant, but here are some details. I access the files on the web server using webdav. With Linux I can edit them right there, but from Windows I copy the file I want to modify on my hard disk, I modify it and copy back to the server. The css file that is messed up was changed like that, but I changed other files this way that are still good. Moreover, when I modify a css file, I don't touch to the corresponding ,v file (I really don't know what they are used to).

I really thank you in advance for any help you can give me: I really don't understand what's going on!!

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-- FlorianSimatos - 23 Sep 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

It doesn't sound like a TWiki problem; more likely it is a problem with webdav. If you still think it might be a twiki problem, the only thing I can suggest is that you remove the many plugins you have installed, and add them back in one by one until the problem re-emerges. But I doubt it will make any difference.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 26 Sep 2006

Apparently, there is indeed a problem when accessing files with webdav from linux... from windows, everything seems to work fine!

-- FlorianSimatos - 29 Sep 2006

Finally, it was my bad: I was editing the css files directly on the server, whereas I should have modified them as attached files...

-- FlorianSimatos - 02 Oct 2006