Inform users that a TWiki site has moved to a new location
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.
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.
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 |
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:
https://sites.astro.caltech.edu/twiki_outreach/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 Author: | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny![]() |
Copyright: | © 2012 Wave Systems Corp.![]() © 2012 TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny ![]() ![]() © 2012 TWiki:TWiki.TWikiContributor ![]() |
Sponsor: | Wave Systems Corp.![]() |
License: | GPL (GNU General Public License![]() |
Description: | Inform users that a TWiki site has moved to a new location |
Screenshot: | ![]() |
Preview: | Preview with this topic |
Base Name: | moved |
Skin Version: | 2012-12-16 |
Change History: | |
2012-12-16: | TWikibug:Item7085![]() |
Dependencies: | None |
Skin Home: | http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/MovedSkin![]() |
Feedback: | http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/MovedSkinDev![]() |
Appraisal: | http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/MovedSkinAppraisal![]() |
Related topic: TWikiSkins, TWikiSkinBrowser, UserDocumentationCategory, AdminDocumentationCategory