You are right. The book is missing something. The catch is that if you are logged into the applications and you are also logged into admin, it will automatically make a wiki_editor group and make you member.
On Friday, 31 May 2013 12:23:42 UTC-5, REM wrote: > > Felicitations, Fellow Primates! > > I'm working through the web2py manual and, having reached the built-in > wiki section and following the instructions, after the built-in wiki is > created (logged in as admin, of course otherwise we couldn't create it to > begin with), we navigate to the index for the wikidemo page and I am > presented with a completely unexpected login request - however, you can't > login. And, when you visit the appadmin for the wiki to check on the db > contents, there are no users or groups. This certainly explains why I can't > login. > > However, the book is WAY wrong on what is allegedly supposed to happen at > this point: It mentions nothing about the login page, nor the fact that > you'll have to create the user and the group yourself before you can > proceed. It does, however, state that upon wiki creation, if you are logged > in as admin, that a group will be automagically created called wiki-editor, > and that you will be added to that group. None of that appears to be true. > The book mentions that the built-in wiki is still experimental and "small > changes" are still possible. Yet, these are not small changes - they are > quite huge.... > > So............ I can't get into the wikidemo without making my own users > and groups - and then once I'm in, according to the book I am expected to > "choose a slug" (speaking as if, upon creation the wikidemo will somehow > have articles already in production within it....?), and proceed from there > learning something about MARKMIN wiki syntax. However, I can't proceed per > se. I'll certainly read the section anyway and try to get something useful > out of it, but it's a total bummer that in a 5th edition there is something > this wrong with a book that is only about 2 months old, and which I only > received in the mail yesterday. > > Then again, if I have somehow totally farked up the reading, comprehension > and/or execution of this section of the book, I do indeed crave correction, > so please help a n00b out here. > > Many thanks! > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
