A Swiki question

Wed Oct 10 14:18:59 UTC 2001

I suppose you want to keep your html layout:

If you have physic access to the directories of your swiki, then you could:

The (Royal)long way 
- first copy every html-page to a separate swiki-page(inside the editbox),
- remember each page-number
- stop the swiki
- create under the directory: \uploads\ of your swiki, directories with the
same (new) page-numbers
- copy the right gifs to the right number-directories (that is why you had
to remember these for each page)
 (If you later want to kill a page by hand, you can also kill the
accompaning uploads-page with it's gifs)
- restart swiki
- the gifs are now visible for the swiki (check with the uploads-button on
each page)
- edit every separate html-page in the swiki-edit-box of that page: 
.......should start with <html> and end with </html>
.......every path in the reference to a gif should be adopted: 
.........................................<IMG
SRC="http://www.piet.com/blabla../pictuer.gif>
.........................................<IMG SRC="pictuer.gif>
- refresh your page and you should see the gif's

(You should also adapt the references between your pages by hand: Swiki does
not have an hierachy-mechanism for pages, starting from a kind of index page
in a root directory)

you need a slave for this.. 

The (ugly)short way:
- choose a swikipage to attach all your html-pages
- remember the page number
- copy all the gif's to that \upploads\number (no number? create it first
- remove all the path-references in your html-pages, also for
page-references (replace all <path-name> with <nothing>) 
- upload the pages
(clicking on a hyperlink of this page should show the html-page)
- but: you loose your swiki-menu (need to use the back-button of your
browser)
- also: content is not visble for the swiki-search function

even easier:
Keeping it on the other webserver and just linking with *http//...*
It has the disadvantage that the content is not visible for the
search-function of your swiki
and you need to keep the other webserver alive. 

<<Would be nice if someone wrote a file-in mechanism for a hierarchical set
of pages, including uploads>>

-----Original Message-----
From: John Hinsley [mailto:jhinsley at telinco.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 2:10 PM
To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Subject: A Swiki question

I read the Swiki help guide, but still came away not knowing what to do.

I've a couple of things to upload, but they're in conventional web
server style format (naturally enough -- they were on a conventional web
server!). Just the usual stuff, a couple of folders, each with an
index.html, one with a link from index.html and loads of gifs.

Of course, in this format, the *folder* is the page name......

I'm sure the Swiki way of doing things is actually easier, but it
confuses the hell out of me!

Can't I just ftp the stuff up? Port 80? 8080? Please.... pretty please? 

I'd just play with Comanche until I got the right response, but with a
feeble dialup connection, that's going to be expensive.

Cheers

John

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