12 Sep
2005
12 Sep
'05
7:55 p.m.
Hi everyone,
first, a compliment for the developers of XWiki, it seems to be well done
and very promissing. I just starting using XWiki. I created a wiki at
XWiki.com and now downloaded it to first run it at my localhost then later
at my server.
I have a couple of short question. Please forgive me if they are obvious
questins or if they have been posted and discussed already.
1. When I start XWiki at localhost, I seem to be logged in. I see "Hello
Ashraf" on the upper right corner. There is not an Edit function under "More
Actions" link though, so I can not edit or add pages. I registerd a new
user, logged in with the new account but it is the same, cann't edit either.
Why that? What should I change in order to be able to edit contents of
pages?
Note, I can edit pages if i am logged in as admin.
2. In the installation instructions, it says: * The default admin user is
Admin with password admin. Is it possible to change those default values?
3. Surfing around in Xwiki, online as well as local, seems to be slow! is
Java responsible for that? Why? I've seen other java-based wikis that are
faster than this!
4. How can I remove users ? is it possible at all?
Thanks a lot,
Ashraf
12 Sep
12 Sep
8:34 p.m.
Ashraf -
I too have an XWiki install locally and think it's great...
1. When I start XWiki at localhost, I seem to be
logged in. I see "Hello
Ashraf" on the upper right corner. There is not an Edit function under "More
Actions" link though, so I can not edit or add pages.
I just checked and get the same results on mine so I figure that's normal for out of
the box, so I think you need to create rights:
http://www.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Doc/HowDoesRightsWork
...and above that page is the FAQ where there are more pages on rights.
2. In the installation instructions, it says: * The
default admin user is
Admin with password admin. Is it possible to change those default values?
I don't know about changing the "default", but to change the password, the
Admin profile page can be edit'ed and that password changed:
http://<yourxwiki.org>/xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/Admin
3. Surfing around in Xwiki, online as well as local,
seems to be slow! is
Java responsible for that?
I've noticed the online is sometimes slow too, but our local install runs fast...
4. How can I remove users ? is it possible at all?
Just delete the user's profile page (see FAQ).
HTH,
-kenk
13 Sep
13 Sep
3:43 a.m.
New subject: [xwiki-users] Re: New user to XWiki
Hi Kenk, everyone,
thanks for the reply. I missed the HowDoesRightsWork page before. Now I got
it. That brought me to another question though.
I am looking at the user's Access Level table, (got there by hitting Admin >
XWiki.XWikiUsers <http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/XWikiUsers> >
XWiki.user ) before this user has been given edit privileges, The table
looks like:
Groups Access LevelsUsersAllow/DenyXWiki.XWikiAdminGroup Allow edit
XWiki.user
Allow
What does that mean, why is there an "edit" in the access level column
although the user can not edit anything at this stage?
Giving user edit permission by admin does not change the entries in the
table at all!!
Should it not be view instead of edit before? Or the entries have a
different meaning than whau I am thinking.
Thanks,
Ashraf
14 Sep
14 Sep
12:07 a.m.
New subject: [xwiki-users] Re: New user to XWiki
Ashraf -
I'm dealing with user rights too. It *sounds* from this:
I am looking at the user's Access Level table,
(got there by hitting Admin
XWiki.XWikiUsers > XWiki.user ) before this user has been given edit
privileges,
that you are adding rights objects to the XWiki.user "page", whereas that should
only be done to the page(s) or "space" where you wish to define rights.
To do this: As an Admin open the "More Actions" drop down menu and choose
either "Page Access Rights" or whatever access rights and then you will add
rights objects to the appropriate pages.
I can't tell however whether you were already doing this.
This table:
The table looks like:
Group -- Access Levels -- Users -- Allow/Deny
XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup / Allow / edit / XWiki.user / Allow
can be tricky. "XWiki.XWikiGuest" and "XWiki.XWikiAllGroup" are
opposites but in some cases the all-group must be added along side groups that you create
in rights objects, so those 2 entities are not equal by usage.
So you might need to add "XWiki.XWikiAllGroup" to the rights object you were
testing with.
-ken
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