[dokuwiki] Re: Can we directly edit data/pages/*.txt ?
- From: Christopher Smith <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:15:29 +0100
On 3 Jul 2009, at 08:19, Carsten Fuchs wrote:
Now we'd like to globally "Search and Replace" some URLs and names
in all wiki pages.
Can we do this by directly editing the contents of the data/pages/
*.txt files?
Page locking is not a concern, and having changelog entries for
these changes is not required as well.
However, are we safe from inadvertently creating any inconsistencies
regarding the DokuWiki internals when directly editing the data/
pages/*.txt files?
Anything to be aware of?
For URLs, the search index will be incorrect until DokuWiki reindexes
all the pages that have changed. E.g. after the change searching on
the new URL is likely to bring no results while searching on the old
URL is likely to return all the changed pages. You can use the
searchindex plugin (http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:searchindex) to
rebuild the search index and fix this issue.
What do you mean by "names"?
- Names of people, things - ie. general text - in the wiki pages. As
for URLs above
- Page names (first headings). Touch your conf/local.php file to
expire the wiki cache. This will ensure DokuWiki rebuilds things
before it uses them. Use searchindex plugin or the search index may
still be out of kilter for a while.
- Page names (wiki page file names). Touch your conf/local.php file
to expire the wiki cache. Pages will lose the connection to their
revisions/history. Some other files will be orphaned (e.g. metadata),
the search index will be out of kilter, so use the searchindex
plugin. DokuWiki can cope with all this, the new names are new pages
and DokuWiki will build the things those new pages need.
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As with all changes of this nature, test, test, test.
Duplicate your wiki. Run the changes. Try it. To duplicate a
dokuwiki installation all you need to do is copy the files to some
fresh webspace. Running a webserver on your pc is easy enough and
then you can modify your hosts file for the duration of your test -
just add an entry mapping your wiki domain name to 127.0.0.1.
- Chris
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