Notes on how to upload large HTML directories onto TWiki

This problem came about when I used MATLAB and Photoshop to create a web page with a large number of images which I was loathe to upload to TWiki one by one.

• Make a TWiki page which will act as the root html file. Example: RRLegCompliance
• In a text editor, open up the HTML code and do global replaces on the HTML links. Linked files will go into

%ATTACHURL%/

so prepend this in all of the internal links. Example:

<A href="%ATTACHURL%/pages/xx.html"><IMG src="%ATTACHURL%/thumbnails/xx.jpg" border="0" alt="xx"></A>

• Copy and paste the modified HTML code into the TWiki editor page.
• For HTML pages that are linked from the main page, modify each so that the links point to the right place.
  I used a BASH script and SED script to do this:
  BASH Script:

     #!/bin/bash
  
     for file in *.html
       do
        sed -f fixhtml.sed $file > .temp.html
        mv .temp.html $file
     done
  
     rm -f .temp.html
  

  SED Script (fixhtml.sed):

       s:background="../images/background.jpg"::g
       s:../index.html:../../../../bin/view/Main/RRLegCompliance:g

The SED script deletes the background image from each page and replaces the link to the root page with a link to the TWiki page.

• Use SFTP to upload the subdirectories onto BDML in the directory /home/httpd/twiki/pub/Main/PageName where PageName is the TWiki name of the page.
• Test out the links and fix anything you forgot to change...

-- JonathanKarpick - 21 Oct 2004