Swiki FAQ

Beginners Questions (and Answers)

Problems

• Is there a document out there explaining how Swiki markup works?
• Why won't e-mail alerts work?
• How do I increase the number of connections Comanche accepts?

Developer Questions

• How do I use the SwikiBrowser?
• How do I add a logo to every page?
• How do I make a new color scheme?
• How do I creat a new plug-in?

Administration Questions

• How do I remove a Swiki?
• How do I change the name of a Swiki?
• How do I make the Server be headless?
• How do I upgrade a Swiki?
• How do I upgrade from Swiki Beta 9 to Swiki Beta 12?
• How do I upgrade from a pre-Beta 11 version?
• How do I move a Swiki?
• How do I render a Swiki?
• How do I redirect from Apache to Swiki?
• How do I use Comanche instead of Apache on RedHat9?
• How do I configure Swiki headless?
• How do I change the ports used by a Swiki?
• Run as daemon on Linux?
• Swiki runs fine under localhost option but not on 'the net'

User Questions

• How to use a applet on a Swiki-page

Beginners Questions (and Answers)

• How do I change the colors of a swiki page?

• How do I use the "security" section in the admin mode ? - for example: how do I create separate administration rights for different swikis?

1. Highlight the Swiki you wish to work with, then click on Security
2. Click on "Create Security Profile" If there is no profile for that item.

1. The Security setup is self explanatory, but here is a brief synopsis of the options available:

• Default Privileges - This is the privileges available when someone just surfs into the site without signing in. The options range from:

1. Deny All - Can't read anything on the site
2. Read Only - Means just that. no editing.
3. Append - May append to a page, but not able to edit it.
4. Write - May edit the page.
5. Allow All - All options are available to an anonymous user.

• Account Privileges - All the options below are just like the options in Default Privileges, but allow for username:password pairs (or ip_number / ip_mask).

1. Read Only - Username:Password (or ip_number / ip_mask) which may read the pages.
2. Append - Username:Password (or ip_number / ip_mask) which may append to the pages.
3. Write - Username:Password (or ip_number / ip_mask) which may write pages.
4. Allow All - Username:Password (or ip_number / ip_mask) which may do all of the above.

• Can anyone use this Swiki?

• Who is this Swiki aimed at?

1. Learning Squeak and curious about the internals of Squeak programming.
2. New to Wikis in general and want an easy way to start learning the care and feeding of Wikis in an easy environment.
3. Have an old box you want to repurpose for documents (hey, thats me!)
4. Just like messing around with new software.

• What's the best way to start a page in this Swiki?

• Can I preview a page before saving it? (as in Wikipedia)

• If this Swiki is not '''for me''', can you recommend other Wikis or Swikis where I could find a home? (Questions posted by DavidMartland – see WardsWiki)

• Is there a shorthand for using a picture as a link?

• How do I refer to another swiki on the same server without using an absolute path?

• Is there a simple example how to use Squeak embedded in the page? like < ? ....code ... ? >

• How can I delete a file I've uploaded?

• Why won't my .gif or .jpg file show up in my page?
• Why won't my .bmp (or .psd, .pdf, etc.) file show up in my page?
• How do I make my text colored?

• How do I put a chart I've made in Excel into my page?

• How can I make things centered?

• My images take forever to display. How can I make this faster?
• I accidentally messed up a page. How can I fix it?

• I delete the name of my page. Where did it go? Can I get it back?
• What is an "Edit Conflict" and what should I do when I get that?
• How can I make a simple table?

• How can I put my images and text side by side?

• using an aliased link in the syntax &star alias > ling &star causes many links on the same page having the same name. This is a bug I guess.
• how do I replace the icons by my own ?
• I got a ComSwiki with a site's loggin. There is 20 peoples using it. How do I give access only to a particular page to a particular person without explicitly denied the others pages to this person (you know the problem if there is lot of pages).

Can I "alias" attachments?

Hi Is there a version of Swiki running on Apache?

#! /bin/sh
while true ; do squeakcomanche swiki.image ; done

#! /bin/sh
wget -q -O /dev/null -T 20 http://localhost:8080/ || killall squeakcomanche

while true; do { wget -q -O /dev/null -T 20 http://localhost || kill_process.pl squeak; sleep 20s; } ; done

#!/bin/perl

@process_list = `ps | grep $ARGV[0]`;
foreach $thisProcess (@process_list)
{
  if ($thisProcess =~ /([0-9]+)/)
  {
    `kill $1`;
    print "killing $1\n";
  }
}