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.

Screenshot

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.
  • See the installation supplement on TWiki.org for more information.

• 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
    templates/view.moved.tmpl	Skin template file
    lib/TWiki/Contrib/MovedSkin.pm	Skin Perl module
    pub/TWiki/MovedSkin/*.png	Screenshots

  • Set the ownership of the extracted directories and files to the webserver user.

• Skin testing:
  • Test if installed: https://www.llamaobservatory.org/do/view/TWiki/MovedSkin?skin=moved.

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:
https://www.llamaobservatory.org/do/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

Skin Author:	TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
Copyright:	© 2012 Wave Systems Corp. © 2012 TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki.org © 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: Initial version
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