[pws] Lock and unlock problem in Docs Swiki?

2002-02-13 Thread Derrel Fincher
I have a problem where my users try to lock pages,and they get a Cannot find server or DNS error. However, when they go back to their pages, they are locked and neither their password nor the administration password works. However, when I stop and start the server, their pages are all

Re: [pws] Lock and unlock problem in Docs Swiki?

2002-02-13 Thread Derrel Fincher
, Derrel Fincher wrote: I have a problem where my users try to lock pages,and they get a Cannot find server or DNS error. However, when they go back to their pages, they are locked and neither their password nor the administration password works. However, when I stop and start the server

Re: [pws] Lock and unlock problem in Docs Swiki?

2002-02-13 Thread Derrel Fincher
password did work, so I don't know the problem. I wonder if it could be that we mean different admin passwords. I mean the one under settings for the swiki, while you might mean the password to access the adminTool? Peace and Luck! Je77 On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:44:09AM +0900, Derrel Fincher

Re: [pws] Lock and unlock problem in Docs Swiki?

2002-02-14 Thread Derrel Fincher
I know I'm chewing up bandwidth here, but I've got another problem: I'm running the Aqua scheme, but I get an error in the browser, and Netscape shows: The requested URL (http://asij.homeip.net:8000/files/aqua/scripts.js) was not found on this server. This appears to be the wrong URL and only

Re: [pws] Cheat Sheet for Editing

2002-10-30 Thread Derrel Fincher
It's got my vote for both! I'm using CoWebs with 11-year-old's and it would help to have the cheat sheet right there when they are editing. Derrel At 05:38 PM 10/30/2002 -0500, Jochen F. Rick wrote: I'd like to get people's feedback on what they think of having a cheat sheet on the edit page to

Re: [pws] Christian Noacks enhancements with ComSwiki 1.3

2002-12-04 Thread Derrel Fincher
I couldn't get it to work with ComSwiki 1.3 either. I did figure out a work-around that involved creating it as another type (refs), then manually editing the file to change it to advanced Docs, then restarting the Swiki. The main feature I was interested in was being able to tie a username

Re: [pws] Christian Noacks enhancements with ComSwiki 1.3

2002-12-05 Thread Derrel Fincher
Hi, My ignorance of the workings of the Swiki and Squeak is going to show, but I'm not quite sure what to do with the change set that was attached. I have Doc, Image, and Forward from Harvest Moon Enhanced in the Swiki. Is this intended to be filed in without Christian Noack's enhancements or

Re: Fw: , Fwd: Re: [pws] Christian Noacks enhancements with ComSwiki 1.3

2002-12-05 Thread Derrel Fincher
Thanks for sending it on. I did get it through the list, but I don't quite understand it so I've sent another message to the list. The frustrating part is that Squeak and Swiki are really designed for programmers to work with so changes are difficult without support. Regards, Derrel At 10:47

Re: [pws] Christian Noacks enhancements with ComSwiki 1.3

2002-12-07 Thread Derrel Fincher
release if more problem happens after update. :-) By the way, I found some more problems using AdvancedDocs and added another patches into the changset. I'll attach my new changeset to this posting. Have a nice day. On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:04:24PM +0900, Derrel Fincher wrote: Hi, My ignorance

[pws] User logging feature request

2003-02-10 Thread Derrel Fincher
This came up on the list before, but it would be very helpful to have all changes to the Swiki, including text boxes, identified by the user who made the change as it is much more helpful than the computer name that is currently used. I've used the patch, but then page locking doesn't work and

Re: [Pws] last * on swiki pages trouble

2003-10-24 Thread Derrel Fincher
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[Pws] Swiki status?

2004-05-10 Thread Derrel Fincher
Just out of curiosity, what is the current status for Swiki? Is it being worked on at Georgia Tech anymore and are future releases planned? I was disappointed that it did not make it into the article on Wikis in a recent PC Magazine as it is by far the simplest and easiest to get up and

Re: [Pws] swiki for 60 students

2005-09-01 Thread Derrel Fincher
I've used a Swiki with over a 100 students, and I've had 20 editing simultaneously in a lab. These were middle school students and they were able to figure it out. Use Je77's suggestions about how to reduce edit conflicts. Because Swiki maintains an easy-to-access list of changes, nothing is

Re: [Pws] Running the swiki in Windows as a service to start automatically

2005-09-23 Thread Derrel Fincher
As I understand it, the full procedure to run Swiki as a service is: 1. Run Swiki first to choose the port and then start the service. Click Save and Exit while the service is running. 2. In a command window, enter a command similar to the following: D:\Winterlong\ComSwiki\squeak -log:

[Pws] Running Winterlong on Server 2003

2005-10-04 Thread Derrel Fincher
I tested Winterlong on my XP machine as a service and it performed admirably. Then I ported it to our Windows 2003 server so that we could run it on the web. We have IIS on port 80, but I wouldn't expect that to interfere. However, when I try to start Swiki, I get the following errors: Error:

[Pws] RSS Function problems

2005-10-26 Thread Derrel Fincher
I am trying to use the RSS function using the default settings shown in the help file (?rss src="" href="http://slashdot.org/index.rss" eudora="autourl"> http://slashdot.org/index.rss?) However, the message I get is RSS function unable to contact http://slashdot.org/index.rss Yet when I put the

Re: [Pws] Questions on swiki page

2005-11-06 Thread Derrel Fincher
Will this enhancement work with Winterlong? When I initially ran it, it was based on Docs and not Refs. Can we just file it in? This is a problem for me as we have 800 students who all have the same IP address when they are in school, and then have dynamic IPs when they are not in school. IP

Re: [Pws] Questions on swiki page

2005-12-10 Thread Derrel Fincher
the file directly. Truly yours, Yasuo Uchida --- Derrel Fincher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will this enhancement work with Winterlong? When I initially ran it, it was based on Docs and not Refs. Can we just file it in? This is a problem for me as we have 800 students who all have the same IP address when

[Pws] User management

2005-12-13 Thread Derrel Fincher
First, great job on the software JE77! My head is still spinning with possibilities for the AniAniWeb. I also checked out some pages on http://home.cc.gatech.edu/. In particular http://home.cc.gatech.edu/kristin/36 caught my eye as that is an example of good design. Just a couple of

[Pws] Capturing Both Username and IP Address

2006-01-14 Thread Derrel Fincher
Uchida Yasuo gave us a good tip on how to record a users name in the page history in a swiki using One of These Days instead of just the IP address, to wit: 1. With your text editor, replace all the lines of the file 'swiki/default/address/22' with the line shown below. --- request security

Re: [Pws] Capturing Both Username and IP Address

2006-01-17 Thread Derrel Fincher
Thanks again! This is working well and satisfies our needs for the classic Swiki function. We are about to turn 200 eighth graders loose in a CoWeb and we need to track users because it helps us find those who are having problems and don't know it. Can this code be incorporated in future

Re: [Pws] Capturing Both Username and IP Address

2006-01-18 Thread Derrel Fincher
). return]] ifFalse: [cacheEntry at: 2]]]. username _ request security ifNotNil: [request security user] ifNil: ['unknown']. username, ':', ipName - Truly yours, Yasuo Uchida --- Derrel Fincher [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I

[Pws] Using Swiki with double-byte characters

2006-01-25 Thread Derrel Fincher
Any suggestions for getting Swiki to work with double-byte character sets? This would be ideal in our Mandarin and Japanese courses, but we need to be able to use double-byte characters. Thanks, Derrel ___ Pws mailing list Pws@cc.gatech.edu

Re: [Pws] body onload-...

2006-01-29 Thread Derrel Fincher
What about putting the script block as the first part of the window, then have the onload=(...) in a div tag? Derrel At 02:28 PM 1/29/2006 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know how to add an onload=(...) clause to the body tag of a Swiki page? Jeff...

Re: [Pws] how to force authentication

2006-02-05 Thread Derrel Fincher
You might consider switching to the AniWebs. They support Login and logout. You also have much more granular control over permissions. Derrel At 11:04 PM 2/4/2006 -0600, Dan Ringrose wrote: Fellow list members - here's my current swiki quest: One way we've deployed swikis is on wireless laptops

[Pws] Swiki Rendering, codes in titles, launching MediaPlayer

2006-05-26 Thread Derrel Fincher
I have several issues that maybe somebody has some thoughts on. First, I'm trying to render a site of some 950 pages and it won't render. In past verisions, generally a few pages would render and I could find an error in the next page that I could fix. However, no pages are showing up in the

Re: [Pws] Swiki Rendering, codes in titles, launching MediaPlayer

2006-05-31 Thread Derrel Fincher
Hi Jeff, Thanks for looking into rendering; I swear it worked on Winterlong. I have had rendering halt after writing a few pages on earlier versions, but that was usually traced to mismatched asterisks as my sixth graders tried to use them to illustrate multiplication procedures. As far as

Re: [Pws] problem starting Squeak

2006-06-27 Thread Derrel Fincher
Linux also needs to know where the squeak.image file is as well, e.g., ./squeak ./squeak.image The line I used in a script to start swiki as headless was: /home/dfincher/ComSwiki/squeak -headless -memory 64m /home/dfincher/ComSwiki/squeak.image Derrel At 01:20 PM 6/27/2006 -0700,

Re: [Pws] how create an ani swiki?

2006-06-29 Thread Derrel Fincher
Hi James, The users you create in the admin panel really don't have anything to do with Aniwebs. First, you have to create an account on the sign-in page, then it will email you the account password and username. You then go to the users section of the admin panel to make the user an owner if

Re: [Pws] Running the swiki in Windows as a service to start automatically

2006-08-02 Thread Derrel Fincher
Check out http://derrel.net/coweb/service.htm. Derrel At 01:10 PM 8/2/2006 -0300, Natalia Esteban wrote: Hi! I install comanche 7.0.2 on Win Server 2003 Standard Edition. I was trying to configure the webserver as a service to start automatically when I restart the system. So I saved the image

Re: [Pws] moving Swiki from Windows to Linux

2006-09-20 Thread Derrel Fincher
IF you are running the same versions, you should just be able to move the folders of the CoWebs you have created (not refs, ani, or default) in Windows to the Linux server for most cases. You will run into problem IF you are using Swikis based on Ani in both sites. In this case you have to move

Re: [Pws] Problem starting Swiki server

2007-06-21 Thread Derrel Fincher
Move the refs and default folders to the Linux box and try again. Also, try another port. Derrel At 05:03 PM 6/21/2007 -0700, Christopher Adams wrote: I have recently moved a Swiki from Windows to Linux. I simply moved the swiki folder, minus the Refs and Default folders, to the ComSwiki

Re: [Pws] Fwd: Help! Our Swiki stopped working and our content is inside

2007-06-27 Thread Derrel Fincher
Go into your ComSwiki folder and delete the SqueakDebug.log, then try starting Squeak again. Now post the contents of Squeak.ini and also the contents of SqueakDebug.log file. That will help. In the meantime, you can copy the entire ComSwiki folder to another machine and try it there. If you

Re: [Pws] Swiki - questions

2008-09-09 Thread Derrel Fincher
The one thing that has kept me from being too eager to move on is the Add to the page feature of Swiki--just about the most useful wiki feature that I've ever seen! Has anybody seen this in other wiki software? Derrel At 03:27 AM 9/9/2008, Beat Rubischon wrote: Hello! Surprisingly I have

Re: [Pws] Where's the Edit Button?

2008-10-16 Thread Derrel Fincher
The admin password has nothing to do with the Aniwebs. Go to the Users tab and see who is there--make one of those the owner. Try creating an account on the sign in page and have it mail you your password. If you don't have email enabled (that will make it tough!) go to the Swiki

Re: [Pws] Where's the Edit Button?

2008-10-19 Thread Derrel Fincher
Aniweb and CoWeb users are not done in the same way. AniWeb is stored in the default/users folders. CoWeb is part of the security settings. If you create a security profile while creating the aniweb, you may have a problem. Delete any security profile in the Admin panel. When you click Sign