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TWikiCompatibilityPlugin

Add TWiki personality to Foswiki

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Usage

Automatically maps requests for legacy TWiki web topics to Foswiki free topics as per TopicNameMappingTable.

Map TWIKIWEB to SYSTEMWEB - no Preference setting required.

to add similar auto-compatibility for attachments, add (or uncomment) the following ErrorDocument handling to your Apache configuration in the pub section 

    #for TWikiCompatibility
    ErrorDocument 404 /foswiki/bin/viewfile

Installation Instructions

You do not need to install anything in the browser to use this extension. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the extension on the server.

Open configure, and open the "Extensions" section. Use "Find More Extensions" to get a list of available extensions. Select "Install".

If you have any problems, or if the extension isn't available in configure, then you can still install manually from the command-line. See http://foswiki.org/Support/ManuallyInstallingExtensions for more help.

Plugin Info

Many thanks to the following sponsors for supporting this work:

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Plugin Author(s): Sven Dowideit, Michael Daum, Crawford Currie
Copyright: © SvenDowideit@fosiki.com
License: GPL3 (Gnu General Public License)
Version: v1.1.2
Release: 1.1.2
Change History:  
1.1.2 Released with Foswiki 1.1.4 - minor cleanup of topics and code.
1.1.1 Foswikitask:Item9415 - Documentation updates
1.1 Foswikitask:Item8669 - MAINWEB mapping removed. It has instead been added to DefaultPreferences in Foswiki 1.1 and forward so that upgraders do not have to enable this plugin just to map MAINWEB to USERSWEB. Many upgraders will not need any other function and would rather not have the code overhead of this plugin
1.0 Version shipped with Foswiki 1.0.X
Dependencies: None
Plugin Home: http://foswiki.org/Extensions/TWikiCompatibilityPlugin
Support: http://foswiki.org/Support/TWikiCompatibilityPlugin

Related Topics: Plugins, DeveloperDocumentationCategory, AdminDocumentationCategory, DefaultPreferences, SitePreferences
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