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Problems observed with the Main Wiki |
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"Personal" sidebar |
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> > | 04-Feb-2008: With the upgrade to TWiki 4.2 (and a lot of work associated with the web security configuration), this is no longer an issue. Ignore this section... and feel free to edit your personal sidebar.
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| Despite the wording, there's no such thing as a personal sidebar in this Wiki. That is, you may be able to edit the sidebar, but your changes will affect everyone, not just your own account. |
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< < | The technical reason for this is that the Wiki pages don't seem to correctly pick up the Apache variable REMOTE_USER . As a check, here is the value of the variable as you view this page: REMOTE_USER= . So the personal sidebar topic that you create becomes TWikiGuestLeftBar. If this name were unique to your user account, you'd get your own sidebar. Since it's not unique, everyone gets it. |
> > | The technical reason for this is that the Wiki pages don't seem to correctly pick up the Apache variable REMOTE_USER . As a check, here is the value of the variable as you view this page: REMOTE_USER=not set . So the personal sidebar topic that you create becomes TWikiGuestLeftBar. If this name were unique to your user account, you'd get your own sidebar. Since it's not unique, everyone gets it. |
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I'm going to try to suppress the "Create Personal Sidebar" line everywhere I can to prevent problems in the future. But if you happen to see this line, please don't use this option. |