ManagingWebs < TWiki/

---## TWiki Administration

The current implementation of %WIKITOOLNAME% is designed to never forget, that means all topic changes are under revision control and you can't delete or rename topics. 

Nevertheless there are cases where you wish to delete topics. %WIKITOOLNAME% requires administrative stuff like that to be done on the shell level, so please ask your %WIKITOOLNAME% administrator to do that for you. A future version will allow administrators to do that on the browser level.

---+++ How to Rename or Delete a Topic

	* Go to the topic you want to rename / delete.
	* Find out the back-links to this page from _Ref-By_ . Modify other topics if needed.
	* Telnet to the %WIKITOOLNAME% installation.
	* cd to ==twiki/data== and then to the web where the topic is located. Rename / delete the topic ( ==name.txt== ) and repository file ( ==name.txt,v== ). __Hint:__ Instead of deleting a topic you could create a ==Trash== web and move topics/repositories to this web. (A future version of TWiki might have a Trash web.)
	* Edit the ==.changes== file and rename / delete all occurrences of the topic. __Note:__ There might be several lines of the topic.
	* cd to ==twiki/pub== and then to the web where the topic is located. Rename / delete the topic attachment directory if present.

---+++ How to add a New Web

	* See [[TWikiDocumentation#TWiki_Installation_Notes][TWiki Installation Notes]]

---+++ How to Rename or Delete a Web

	* It is advisable not to rename the %WIKITOOLNAME%.%MAINWEB% web.
	* Be aware that other webs might link to the web you want to rename / delete. Search each web for links to this web, i.e. search all webs for =Obsolete.= (include the period, this is to find topics like =Obsolete.SomeTopic= ). Take measures if necessary.
	* Edit the %WIKIPREFSTOPIC% topic and rename / delete the web from the =WIKIWEBLIST= variable.
	* Edit the TWikiWebsTable topic and rename / delete the web from the table.
	* Telnet to the %WIKITOOLNAME% installation.
	* cd to ==twiki/data== and rename / delete the web directory.
	* cd to ==twiki/templates== and rename / delete the web directory if present.
	* cd to ==twiki/pub== and rename / delete the web directory if present.

-- Main.PeterThoeny - 03 Mar 2001 <br>

This topic: TWiki/ > ManagingWebs
Topic revision: r5 - 04 Mar 2001 - 06:04:18 - PeterThoeny

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