To test new Plugins on your installation before making them public, you may want to use one of these two approaches:
Method 1: Safely test on-the-fly by creating separate Production and Test branches in your live TWiki installation.
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Duplicate the twiki/bin and twiki/lib directories for the Test version, adjusting the paths in the new lib/TWiki.cfg, the twiki/data; the twiki/templates and twiki/pub directories are shared.
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Duplicate the twiki/bin and twiki/lib directories for the Test version, and adjust the paths in the new lib/TWiki.cfg. The following directories are shared: twiki/data, twiki/templates and twiki/pub.
Test Plugins and other new features in the Test installation until you're satisfied.
If you modify topics using the new features, live users will likely see unfamiliar new META tags showing up on their pages - to avoid this, create and edit test-only topics to try out new features.
Copy the modified files to the Production installation. You can update a TWiki installation live and users won't even notice.
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