[xwiki-users] XWiki space partially deleted
I wanted a metawiki space, so as the "Admin" user, I created the "XWiki" space. Realizing that we already had a "Wiki" space, I deleted the "XWiki" space. The deletion to surprisinly long time, so I got suspicious and hit "Cancel". I didn't think much of it until a few days later, when I was no longer able to log in as "Admin". That was when I remembered that the "XWiki" space is special. I had deleted a lot more than just a newly created empty space. Now I am no longer allowed to log in as "Admin" or "superadmin". Both accounts worked before, but now both give me the error message "Invalid credentials". Apparently, all users can log in with their ordinary user account, but with no admin account I can no longer re-import the XWiki pages from the XAR file. The "superadmin" account was enabled when I upgraded to the current XWiki 5.2. It was tested and working, but not any longer. How on earth to I get around this? As as side note, I am very surprised that 1) I was able to create the "XWiki" space, just as any other space, and 2) that I was able to delete the "XWiki" space with no notification about this space being vital to XWiki. Any help or pointers are highly appreciated. Kind regards, Peter John Acklam
There is no "Space" object in XWiki model, it is property of XWiki document. Therefore by "creating space" you actually create "Space.WebHome" document. As there was "XWiki.WebHome" document already, it probably ignored adding new one. Try to restart XWiki and hope it will recreate insufficient objects, and then go to /xwiki/bin/import/XWiki/XWikiPreferences?editor=globaladmin§ion=Import and try to import new XAR file. Valdis
I wanted a metawiki space, so as the "Admin" user, I created the "XWiki" space. Realizing that we already had a "Wiki" space, I deleted the "XWiki" space. The deletion to surprisinly long time, so I got suspicious and hit "Cancel". I didn't think much of it until a few days later, when I was no longer able to log in as "Admin". That was when I remembered that the "XWiki" space is special. I had deleted a lot more than just a newly created empty space.
Now I am no longer allowed to log in as "Admin" or "superadmin". Both accounts worked before, but now both give me the error message "Invalid credentials". Apparently, all users can log in with their ordinary user account, but with no admin account I can no longer re-import the XWiki pages from the XAR file.
The "superadmin" account was enabled when I upgraded to the current XWiki 5.2. It was tested and working, but not any longer.
How on earth to I get around this?
As as side note, I am very surprised that 1) I was able to create the "XWiki" space, just as any other space, and 2) that I was able to delete the "XWiki" space with no notification about this space being vital to XWiki.
Any help or pointers are highly appreciated.
Kind regards, Peter John Acklam _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Hi Peter, On 8 Jan 2014 at 11:42:55, Peter John Acklam (pjacklam@gmail.com(mailto://pjacklam@gmail.com)) wrote:
I wanted a metawiki space, so as the "Admin" user, I created the "XWiki" space. Realizing that we already had a "Wiki" space, I deleted the "XWiki" space. The deletion to surprisinly long time, so I got suspicious and hit "Cancel". I didn't think much of it until a few days later, when I was no longer able to log in as "Admin". That was when I remembered that the "XWiki" space is special. I had deleted a lot more than just a newly created empty space.
Now I am no longer allowed to log in as "Admin" or "superadmin". Both accounts worked before, but now both give me the error message "Invalid credentials". Apparently, all users can log in with their ordinary user account, but with no admin account I can no longer re-import the XWiki pages from the XAR file.
The "superadmin" account was enabled when I upgraded to the current XWiki 5.2. It was tested and working, but not any longer.
How on earth to I get around this?
The Admin user is located in the page XWiki.Admin so if you removed the XWiki space you probably removed that user too :) Now I’ve tried it locally too and I can tell you that using the superadmin user works fine for me even with the full XWiki space removed. I noticed something strange though. I deleted the XWiki space and then tried to go to the wiki home and I got a stack trace on screen. Then I restarted XWiki and I was able to view the home page and I was able to log in as superadmin.
As as side note, I am very surprised that 1) I was able to create the "XWiki" space, just as any other space, and 2) that I was able to delete the "XWiki" space with no notification about this space being vital to XWiki.
It’s not completely vital. I did remove the full XWiki space and my xwiki still shows up and I can log in with superadmin and edit pages. Of course I’m missing a few things like all XWiki preferences which were in XWiki.XWikiPreferences so I’m back to defaults (no Panels displayed on the side for example). Now I do agree that we need to make it harder for a user to delete an existing space by error, by asking for confirmation. We also need to make it easier to rollback a full space (ATM you have to rollback each doc one by one). There are existing JIRA issues for these 2 points, someone just need to find the time to implement them… Would that be enough in your opinion?
Any help or pointers are highly appreciated.
Provided you don’t have any backup, the first thing to do is to get you be able to log in as superadmin. Make sure you’re using the user “superadmin” and the right password (as defined in xwiki.cfg). If it doesn’t work, please check the xwiki logs to see if there are any error and let us know. Thanks -Vincent
Kind regards, Peter John Acklam
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