Is there an easy way to temporarily disable realtime editing?

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#1

Is there a way to easily disable the new realtime editing feature?

The reason I ask is I just started getting the " Connecting to the collaborative session. Please wait…" message whenever I edit a page.

I am the only editor of my xwiki and I don’t have the time to debug what’s wrong - probably something to do with my apache reverse proxy configuration.

I was previously getting the " Connecting to the collaborative session. Please wait…" warning, but I fixed that by adding xwiki.url.protocol=https to xwiki.cfg as a quick fix.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

#2

Well, that wasn’t too hard to find.

Global Administration, Editing, WYSIWYG Editor, CKEditor, Disabled Plugins, add “xwiki-realtime” and save.

(Huh. Now I want to learn what all those plugins and toolbar features are.)

#3

Hi,

(Huh. Now I want to learn what all those plugins and toolbar features are.)

Yes,… so do I.

This is related to this new extension : “Realtime WYSIWYG Editor”
https://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Realtime%20WYSIWYG%20Editor/

The video to show what it does is nice.
Of course, if you are the only one that write on the wiki… this is not usefull.

And this forum post :
Bundle the realtime WYSIWYG editor in XWiki Standard, disabled by default

There, it is said that it is disabled by default :
Release Notes for XWiki 16.2.0-rc-1

Interesting :

I was previously getting the " Connecting to the collaborative session. Please wait…" warning, but I fixed that by adding xwiki.url.protocol=https to xwiki.cfg as a quick fix.

It seems that the communication between the two (or several) editors needs some SSL and https protocol.
This seems logical, as the extension uses :

The editor is using the Netflux API for real-time communication between the users participating in the editing session, and the ChainPad algorithm to ensure convergence between the changes made by each user.

Thanks for the info.

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#4

And this forum post :
Bundle the realtime WYSIWYG editor in XWiki Standard, disabled by default

There, it is said that it is disabled by default :
Release Notes for XWiki 16.2.0-rc-1

At some point in the past, I enabled everything so nothing was disabled, but it’s only recently this plugin had some noticeable effect on my installation. I do a lot of silly things and changes that eventually bite me in the bottom, but makes for some interesting problem solving sessions.

As for the xwiki.url.protocol=https, my Apache reverse proxy communicates with Tomcat via http and xwiki needs a hint to make sure it rewrites it’s urls correctly, or something like that.

#5

Thanks !
I was wondering how you ended with the option on, … as they say they default it to off…

:+1: :grinning: exploring interesting problem and solving sessions.

For the https url, may be have a look at this :

Specifically this :
See : Bug 61234
Summary: Add X-Forwarded-Proto to backend requests

And may be also look at this :
How to add X-Forwarded-for header in reverse proxy with SSL passthrough

Even though xwiki.url.protocol=https might be the most simple way…

#6

See https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/Data/XWiki/16.2.0/#HRealtimeWYSIWYGEditor (if you have previously customized the CKEditor configuration you need to disable the real-time manually).

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#7

I did not noticed this.
Interesting.
Thank you.