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MovedSkin
Inform users that a TWiki site has moved to a new location
Overview
Sometimes a TWiki site is migrated to a new location with a new URL. For convenience users visiting the old site should find the new site. When this skin is installed and enabled at the old TWiki site, users will see a yellow moved message box instead of page content. A configurable MOVEDMESSAGE is set to inform users of the new location.
For scheduled downtime & temporary maintenance it is better to use the read-only skin mode of the TopMenuSkin or PatternSkin instead of this MovedSkin. For this, define a BROADCASTMESSAGE setting and a Set READONLYSKINMODE = 1 setting in Main.TWikiPreferences.
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Installation
Note: You do not need to install anything in the browser to use this skin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the skin on the TWiki server.
- For an automated installation, run the configure script, follow "Find More Extensions" in the in the Extensions section, and look for the MovedSkin.
- Or, follow these manual installation steps:
- Download the ZIP file from the Plugins home (see below).
- Unzip
MovedSkin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content: | File: | Description: | data/TWiki/MovedSkin.txt | Skin topic | pub/TWiki/MovedSkin/*.png | Screenshots | templates/view.moved.tmpl | Skin template file | lib/TWiki/Contrib/MovedSkin.pm | Skin Perl module |
- Set the ownership of the extracted directories and files to the webserver user.
Enabling Moved Message
1. Define a MOVEDMESSAGE setting in Main.TWikiPreferences so that the moved message takes effect site-wide. Example:
* Set MOVEDMESSAGE = __NOTE:__ The %WIKITOOLNAME% site has been moved to a new location. The page you are trying to access is now at: %BR%%BR% http://twiki.example.com/do/view/%WEB%/%TOPIC%. %BR% Please update your bookmarks. %BR%%BR% Questions? Ask %WIKIWEBMASTER%
The view/%WEB%/%TOPIC% makes sure that the user ends up the new location of the current page.
If you want the page to redirect automatically to the new site you can add a meta tag to the MOVEDMESSAGE setting. This example redirects after 5 seconds:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=http://twiki.example.com/do/view/%WEB%/%TOPIC%" />
2. Test the yellow moved message box:
http://tait.tcyrus.com/bin/view/TWiki/MovedSkin?skin=moved.
3. Active the skin site-wide by changing the SKIN setting in Main.TWikiPreferences:
* Set SKIN = moved
TWikiSkins has details on skin activation.
Skin Info
Related topic: TWikiSkins, TWikiSkinBrowser, UserDocumentationCategory, AdminDocumentationCategory |
