How do I rerun TW?

#1

Hi

I started my TW the first time using tiddlywiki -g mywiki --init server It worked greate for couple days then i had to restart my computer. Now running the same command compalints about the wiki folder not being empty. I am not sure how I can restart keeping my wiki and serve the server.

thanks

#2

That’s the command to initialize your server. What command are you using to actually run TW, and does it give an error?

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#3

That was the only command I ever run. I am trying to find out the command to serve it regularly.

#4

Ref: https://tiddlywiki.com/#GettingStarted%20-%20Node.js

I have never run a node.js Tiddlywiki but in step 4.2. is gives the command:

tiddlywiki mynewwiki --listen

In your example above I would guess that the command would be:

tiddlywiki mywiki --listen

Seeing what your experience is, I guess it should mention that you don’t need that step on first initialization.

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#6

You might find this batch script helpful, it create shortcuts that you can click to run a nodejs wiki (on windows).

Here’s how it works:

  • Check if Node.JS is installed
  • If not, open https://nodejs.org and close
  • If Node.JS is installed, check if Tiddlywiki is installed
  • If not, install tiddlywiki globally
  • If start.bat was launched with an argument (e.g : start.bat “My wiki”), it will use the argument as the name of the wiki
  • If the name was not provided, it will ask for one
  • Then it will create or initiate the wiki in the same directory
  • It will seek a free port and serve the wiki on it (meaning you can open as many wiki as you want at the same time)
  • Then the wiki will be open in the default web browser
  • If the tiddler $__SiteTitle.tid doesnt exist, the title of the wiki will be set to the name given. To achieve that, title.json is created inside the folder wiki, you can delete it later
  • Two batch files will be added into the wiki directory : one to start the wiki, the other to make a single file backup. In order for the shortcuts to work, you need to keep start.bat in the parent folder.

You can also drag and drop a single file tiddlywiki on this batch script to convert it into a nodejs wiki

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