roundcube and twiki integration

June 12, 2009

Roundcube is a beautiful IMAP webmail client. In order to integrate is properly with an enterprise TWiki installation, ‘single authentication’ needed to be implemented – so that the sign-on for TWiki (which is htpasswd style authenticated by lighttpd) can be used for the roundcube authentication seamlessly. Since the TWiki login/passwords are different from the IMAP [...]

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lighttpd and twiki : Managing htpasswd file

June 12, 2009
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Using twiki with lighttpd is not yet as simple as it should be. One particular problem is that twiki writes out htpasswd files that lighttpd doesn’t parse correctly (twiki includes an unnecessary ‘:$email’ entry). To fix the problem (so that users can manage their own passwords) here’s a quick fix for {twiki}/lib/TWiki/Users/HtPasswdUser.pm : sub _dumpPasswd [...]

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Adding a Disclaimer to TWiki Print format

April 13, 2008
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This is pretty hackish – but it seems to work Ok. Putting your Disclaimers on the Bottom Edit the variable WEBCOPYRIGHT on the page TWiki.TWikiPreferences . For instance, make the line read like this : * Set WEBCOPYRIGHT = %MAKETEXT{“Copyright &©[_1] by PLATFORMedia LLC. ” args=”1999-%GMTIME{$year}%”}% This has been prepared solely for informational purposes. It [...]

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