Forum OpenACS Q&A: Another 'How-to" question with xowiki

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1: Another 'How-to" question with xowiki
Posted by Richard Hamilton on 07/16/09 12:55 PM
I have set up a publically accessible xowiki.

I do not want members of the public to see the weblog page and the xowiki default index page, but I do want them there as useful admin tools. I also have other pages that I want to restrict access to.

As I understand it, permissions can only be set on the xowiki instance which means that I would have to put pages for registered users in a second xowiki instance, and pages for admins in a third xowiki instance.

My question is, how would I set up a weblog and index page in one xowiki instance, that returns information from another xowiki instance.

Wiki 1 - Public
{Weblog deleted}
{Default Index Page deleted}

Wiki 2 - Private
{Weblog for Wiki 1}
{Default Index Page for Wiki 1}
{Weblog for Wiki 2}
{Default Index Page for Wiki 2}

In the docs I can see how to include a page from Wiki 1 in another application and vice-versa, but not how to code a page in one wiki instance to examine the content of another wiki instance.

....or is there a simpler way to achieve the desired result?

Regards
Richard

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2: Re: Another 'How-to" question with xowiki (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 07/16/09 01:31 PM
You CAN set permissions per page, they are just objects. What is missing is a user interface. If you are clever you can hack a permissions URL with the object_id like
/permissions/one?object%5fid=123

This should be much easier than trying to run two wikis. Just rename the index page so it doesn't come up as the default URL and create a new public index page.

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3: Re: Another 'How-to" question with xowiki (response to 2)
Posted by Victor Guerra on 07/16/09 02:59 PM
Just go to the admin section of you xowiki instance. Then go to the parameters section and search for the security_policy parameter; and use the ::xowiki::policy3 value.

Afterwards you go to /admin/list and you will see that every row gets a lock icon which links to the interface where you can change the permissions on a page basis.

For more info, check http://media.wu-wien.ac.at/download/xowiki-doc/#security-management

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4: Re: Another 'How-to" question with xowiki (response to 3)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 07/16/09 03:05 PM
Thanks Victor. I thought there was a way to do that. I checked OpenACS.org but its using older xowiki without policy3. It's great that the documentation is up to date!
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5: Re: Another 'How-to" question with xowiki (response to 4)
Posted by Victor Guerra on 07/16/09 03:17 PM
Actually openacs.org is using the latest version of xowiki 0.118 but true.. with policy1.
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6: Re: Another 'How-to" question with xowiki (response to 5)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 07/16/09 03:22 PM
Oh, Ok. I looked in the parameters and it said the possible values where policy1 and policy2.
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7: Re: Another 'How-to" question with xowiki (response to 6)
Posted by Victor Guerra on 07/16/09 03:24 PM
True, it is just that the param description is not up2date.
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8: Re: Another 'How-to" question with xowiki (response to 1)
Posted by Claudio Pasolini on 07/16/09 09:02 PM
Hi Richard,

you can easily refer to pages, files and images living in other xowiki instances: see https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=2536958

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9: Re: Another 'How-to" question with xowiki (response to 1)
Posted by Ryan Gallimore on 07/17/09 10:12 AM
Does anyone know how to permission categories in Xowiki?
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10: Re: Another 'How-to" question with xowiki (response to 4)
Posted by Richard Hamilton on 07/20/09 03:05 AM
Fantastic, thanks guys. 😊