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Frequently Asked Questions
General questions
- Cron webnotify and mailercontrib on Ubuntu server
- How to install Foswiki on Mac OS X Leopard
- How do you handle errors resulting from calls to CGI executables or REST handlers?
- Where can I find professional support?
- How can I manually approve registrations?
- Where is the preview mode when editing
- What are the rules on form field names? Eg. Can they have spaces?
- How can I set a topic variable using a HTML form button/elements?
- Why does FastCGI cause the browser to pause 15+ seconds on each view?
- Why can't I use BasicAuth to protect configure with FastCGI?
- Does Foswiki have encrypted groups or any other technique to restrict access all the way?
- How do I backup a Foswiki installation
- My SEARCHes are a mess. How can I write them more clearly?
- NatSkin and TinyMCE editor
- How do I stop a System.FormattedSearch using
$formfield()from breaking TML tables? -
configuretells me that I am "..using a version of $CGI that is know to have issues with Foswiki" - How can I rebuild my WikiUsers topic?
- I keep getting mysterious errors from RCS
- How do I put raw text / Javascript / CSS in my topics?
- How should I set filesystem access modes?
- Does Foswiki require Javascript?
- A plugin I installed is not working. How can I troubleshoot it?
- LighttpdProxyBackendFcgi
- How do I move data forms to the top of the topic?
- How can I use LESS for CSS using Less.js
- How do I redirect users from old twiki install to new foswiki install urls?
- How can I show the user's e-mail address in the Users topic?
- How can I stop the WYSIWYG editor leaving tables as HTML?
- How can I tell what DEFs are generating certain parts of my skin/template output?
- How can I process lists in Foswiki, or what is the modern replacement for ForEachPlugin?
- Login for foswiki-beginners-vm
- How do I re-write
DBQUERYasSEARCH{type="query"}? - Do I really have to hard-code a formatted search to suit a given form and its fields?
- How do I (bulk) import data into Foswiki?
- How can I stop the WYSIWYG editor converting tables to TML?
- My Foswiki shows times in UTC/GMT, how do I fix that?
- Basic configuration for Cyrillic support
- How do I create two tables side by side?
- How do I configure Apache to always redirect users to my secure (https) site?
- The new PatternSkin broke my Foswiki 1.0 system
- Create a Solr search form on any page
- How do I dump my topics' formfields out as XML?
- Can a SEARCH take another SEARCH's output as input? How to search all webs and subwebs, while excluding subwebs of a particular web
- Is there a nice way to make a (pre-computed) version of a slow page available, so Foswiki doesn't have to expand all its macros on every single view?
- How can I SEARCH for topics which have some metadata (Eg.
parent.name) that I want to change? - How do I capture a selection in a jqgrid for use in my wiki application?
- How can I report a list of topic children, with a total number of topics under each?
- How can I more easily create topics that use System.DataForms - do I really need to write HTML code each time?
- How do I search for all child topics, including their descendants?
- When creating a topic from a template, can I make it so that
%MACROs%are expanded on save? - How do I remotely update topics (form fields)?
- How can I create a simple Google Sitemap for Search Engine Optimisation?
- How can I re-write image tag URLs with FilterPlugin's SUBST macro?
- How can I broadcast a message to my wiki users, Eg. for maintenance reasons?
- How can I use JQueryTextboxList on my own HTML input field (without using data forms)?
- How can I dynamically list only fields with values on a topic?
- How can I create my own login box in a topic of my choice?
- How can I force WYSIWYG to save content as HTML (prevent conversion to TML?)
- Enabling word count in the editor
- How do I prevent Foswiki from automatically linking WikiWords?
- How do I debug calls to third-party programs?
- How to make wiki text editing ("raw edit") default
- How can I secure my Foswiki against hostile attacks?
- How do I safely upgrade a customized Foswiki installation
- How does Foswiki find Perl libraries? And how do I change that?
- How do I create a Table of Contents?
- How do I find topics not listed on a topic?
- How do I use WYSIWYG with NTLM?
- What is a "structured wiki", and what does it mean in Foswiki?
- Creating applications with DataForms
- Deleting and renaming topics
- Deleting and renaming attachments
- Get Foswiki
- Explanation of Foswiki's
repRevfeature - Foswiki software license
- HiddenUsersAndGroups
- Rebuilding WikiUsers topic
- Fixing broken
%SEARCH{}%caused by faulty configuration. - How simultaneous edits are handled in Foswiki
- Troubleshooting Extensions
- Definition of "WikiWiki"
Foswiki administration
- How to install Foswiki on Mac OS X Leopard
- Why does FastCGI cause the browser to pause 15+ seconds on each view?
- Why can't I use BasicAuth to protect configure with FastCGI?
- Does Foswiki have encrypted groups or any other technique to restrict access all the way?
- How do I backup a Foswiki installation
-
configuretells me that I am "..using a version of $CGI that is know to have issues with Foswiki" - How can I rebuild my WikiUsers topic?
- I keep getting mysterious errors from RCS
- How should I set filesystem access modes?
- How do I redirect users from old twiki install to new foswiki install urls?
- How can I show the user's e-mail address in the Users topic?
- Login for foswiki-beginners-vm
- How do I (bulk) import data into Foswiki?
- The new PatternSkin broke my Foswiki 1.0 system
- How can I create a simple Google Sitemap for Search Engine Optimisation?
- How do I debug calls to third-party programs?
- How do I safely upgrade a customized Foswiki installation
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