Welcome
Congratulations, you now have a working installation of
iiFoswiki.
Basic Setup
Log in with the local admin account
Log in locally using the local administrator
admin and the password stored in the
INITIAL_ADMIN_PASSWORD environment variable
Go to the
configure page and configure various features of Foswiki.
Fresh installation
Please complete the installation and configuration by performing the steps outlined below.
Replace this topic with the front page for this website when done. Have a look at
SitePreferences to see how to create a front page resembling the old front page of ETH websites.
Register Initial User
Register yourself as administrator using your ETH user account:
When done log out
admin and log in again as yourself.
Preferences
Carefully look through
WebPreferences and change the preferences as explained there.
Trash Web Preferences
Also edit
Trash.WebPreferences to configure the
Trash web used for deleted topics and attachments. Most of the settings can be copied over from
WebPreferences.
Customize Topics
Make sure that all topics that are linked through the
main and
header navigation and
footer links are there and contain meaningful information. The following topics are already present and should be edited, renamed or removed:
Do not forget to create and edit the topics and subtopics for the other links in the main navigation too.
By default the RSS feed
RssNews is enabled in
WebPreferences which serves the first sub-section of the
Main.News as feed item.
Migration
To migrate an existing iiTWiki to a new iiFoswiki forllow the steps below.
Backup iiTWiki
create a tar of the whole
/var/www/twiki directory:
cd /var/www/
tar cf twiki.tar twiki
Copy
twiki.tar to
/var/www/foswiki on the new iiFoswiki.
Prepare the Migration
Extract
twiki.tar and run the preparation script.
cd /var/www/foswiki
tar xf twiki.tar
cd twiki
../tools/iifoswiki_prep_migration.sh
Review any stray files.
Migrate
Run the migration script.
../tools/iifoswiki_migrate.sh
