Frequently Asked Questions
Differences between webtrees 1.7 and 2.0
Server administration
- How do I enable pretty URLs?
- How do I force external links to open in a new tab/window?
- How do I configure webtrees to send e-mail?
- How do change the default language?
- Can I downgrade to an earlier version?
- How do I move webtrees to a new server.
- Timeouts
Errors
- I get a “500” error or a blank page.
- How do I see errors in XHR requests?
- I cannot upload large files
- Upgrade fails “A non well formed numeric value encountered”
- Upgrade fails “PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature””
Media files and images
Genealogy data
- There are no spaces between the given names and the surname.
- How can I show the GEDCOM IDs (XREFs) in webtrees?
- How do locations work?
- How do nicknames work?
Oops - I screwed up
Migrating from PhpGedView to webtrees
- Letters with accents have become corrupted, so é becomes é, è becomes è, and so on.
- After migrating, I cannot login with my admin account
- Embedded HTML no longer appears processed before display
- How to run the transfer wizard again