Comments:Configuration
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Virtual Wikis

How do I change the Default Virtual Wiki http://www.myserver.com/jamwiki/ from mapping en to e.g. de??

Testing working of commetnt...

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How can i change the background of the stylesheet?

Copied from the FAQ page:

Because i'm changing the image of the background in the style sheet and when i save the changes the wiki doesn´t change into my new background.

That should work, provided the CSS is correct. You may also need to do a SHIFT+reload in your browser to ensure that your browser isn't displaying a cached version of your CSS file. Let me know if you encounter further problems. -- Ryan 12-Dec-2006 08:28 PST
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adding navigation entry

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Hi Ryan, when I add - as administrator - a navigation-link everything works fine. The new link - to a non-existing page - is marked red. When I click the link and add some words to the new page ans save the content, the new red link still remains red! I tried to reload the page [str]+R and all the stuff - with the browser but the link remains red. That means it still opens the editing mode for the page. ;-) --Michael Habbert 18-Feb-2007 02:24 PST

I'm not sure that will necessarily be easy to fix - at the moment the left nav, stylesheet, footer, etc. are cached, and it's only when that page is modified or the cache expires that the cache is refreshed. In this case, JAMWiki doesn't know that anything in the left nav changed, so the cache never clears. You can clear it automatically from the Special:Admin page by clicking the clear cache link, which should update the link color. I'll give some thought to how this might be fixed, but doing so might be a trade-off for performance, so I suspect the best solution for now is simply to clear the cache when needed. -- Ryan 18-Feb-2007 10:25 PST
I just tried this and discovered that there isn't an option on the admin page to clear the cache. Oops. A workaround until I build one is to simply edit the LeftMenu to add some minor change and re-save, and that will update it. -- Ryan 18-Feb-2007 10:49 PST
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Is there a way to use classic mediawiki search instead of lucene?

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Hi everybody, in admistration tools there is a possibility to choose Search Engine, but Lucene Search engine is the only option. I would like to use classic search, for its organization of search results. and is there a way to change default action for search field to 'Go to' instead of 'Search'? So that the user could be redirected directly to the page if it exits? Thank you for your time. regards Matus Majchrak

At the moment there isn't a configuration option for using "Go To" as the default, but if enough people ask for that feature then it would be easy to implement. If it something that you really want you could implement it locally fairly easily - in your wiki installation you can edit the file /WEB-INF/jsp/wiki.jsp and change the following lines from:

	<input type="submit" name="search" value='<f:message key="generalmenu.search"/>'/>
	<input type="submit" name="jumpto" value='<f:message key="generalmenu.jumpto"/>'/>
to:

	<input type="submit" name="jumpto" value='<f:message key="generalmenu.jumpto"/>'/>
	<input type="submit" name="search" value='<f:message key="generalmenu.search"/>'/>
Hope that helps! -- Ryan 22-Feb-2008 07:24 PST
Thank you Ryan
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Images

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Please reply to this question if any body knows: My question is I want to add one link in the Jamwiki left menu, when i click that It should open another webpage, and when ever I upload a file , it should create a link in that webpage, so that i can access from my page itself..

regards, M.Seetharam Reddy, e-mail:seetharam.maila@cmcltd.com

msr.reddymail@gmail.com
Unfortunately the Mediawiki syntax (which JAMWiki uses) doesn't allow <img> tags, so images must be added by using the Special:Upload functionality. See metawikipedia:Help:HTML in wikitext for details of what HTML is allowed, and metawikipedia:Help:Images and other uploaded files for details on using images in a wiki. -- Ryan 05-Feb-2008 20:13 PST
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CSS Question

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  • Hi guys. I found JAMWiki today, found it very easy to setup and use, as it is VERY similar to MediaWiki. My question is: where can I find a CSS file with classes definition like tables and so. For instance, I was looking for the very nice table class "wikitable" aka "prettytable" that is used on most WikiMedia wikis. I could not find it, nor any CSS file to add that class. --Zajoman 11-May-2007 04:17 PDT
  • Yo, I'm sorry to have probably bothered you with such a stupid question. I should have taken a much longer look at the StartingPoints page. --213.215.115.34 11-May-2007 06:22 PDT
No such thing as a stupid question :) The documentation for JAMWiki is TERRIBLE, and needs improvement. If anyone is interested in starting to reorganize / create documentation I would help out as much as time allows. I would imagine such a reorg could probably follow the structure from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki, with three main sections: user documentation, administrator documentation, and developer documentation. The existing Installation doc would fall under "administrator" (and should be moved to Help:Installation), a new Help:Configuration doc could be created, things like the existing Wiki Syntax doc would fall under "user". Category:JAMWiki contains most of the existing docs now and might be a good place to start.
As a side note, if anyone is interested in helping out with documentation please comment about your plans here before starting a reorg of the site's docs, just to make sure we're all on the same page :) -- Ryan 11-May-2007 08:13 PDT
Note that I've taken a stab at re-organizing the documentation - see Category:User Documentation, Category:Developer Documentation and Category:Administrator Documentation. -- Ryan 10-Jun-2007 20:18 PDT
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Time format (again...)

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After trying to resolve the problem by extensive trial-and-error and bombarding people and forums I'll epitomize it here again. I want to get rid of the timezone within signatures, i.e. "18:05 +01:00" should display as "19:05". The server environment:

  • SuSE Linux 9.2
  • TZ is set to CEST
  • TZ for tomcat5 in wrapper.conf set by wrapper.java.additional.9=-Duser.timezone=CEST

date behaves well and displays "19:05", while the JAMWiki displays "18:05" (+01:00). Any suggestions? --Frank 26-Oct-2007 03:48 PDT

Signature patterns are configured using the "Pattern for dates in signatures" setting from Special:Admin. To remove the timezone I believe all you should need to do is remove the "zzz" from the end of the pattern. Let me know if that resolves your issue or if there is another problem. -- Ryan 26-Oct-2007 19:20 PDT
Hi, Ryan, alas it does not. Removing the timezone code I don't get "19:05" but "18:05" regarding the example above. -- Frank 02-Nov-2007 05:29 PST

Since DST reset on last weekend of October (Germany) signature expansion gives wrong times. 13:00 real time is shown as "13:00 +01:00". Which one is the culprit, the OS (Linux), the app server (tomcat) or JAMWiki? --Frank 26-Nov-2007 09:00 PST

JAMWiki simply passes the signature pattern configured in Special:Admin to java.text.SimpleDateFormat, so the problem is likely either at the OS level or the app server. I think the app server is set up to use the OS time settings by default, so you may want to first verify that the OS time is correct and then make sure that the app server isn't using custom settings. When I get home tonight I'll try to remember to check the JAMWiki code to make absolutely sure that nothing strange is happening, although time settings on jamwiki.org seem to have survived the end of daylight savings so I think it's OK. -- Ryan 26-Nov-2007 10:01 PST
Sorry, a long time since... A command line date provides correct times (CET). I've been fiddling around with wrapper.conf timezone parameter wrapper.java.additional.9=-Duser.timezone=Europe/Berlin (commenting out or setting timezone to CET and CEST), but displayed times in JAMWiki stay untouched... I am at my wits' end. --Frank 05-Dec-2007 04:07 PST