Question

Hi TWiki experts,

Sorry to bother you people with my trivialities. I searched the support web, but could not find anything like this. I want to get TWiki configured on my company’s local intranet server, so I have no root access.

I installed TWiki 4.0.1 in following directory structure: (on ~myaccount = /mycompany/other/myaccount/)

These are the apache directories:

I followed the configuration steps as described in the documentation, and I managed to run the configure script:

http://localwww.mycompany.be/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/myaccount/twiki/bin/configure

This gives following errors and warnings:

• In the section “CGI setup”:
  • CGI bin directory Error: Cannot open /mywebserver/other/intranet_webserver/cgi-bin/cgiwrap for read - check it exists, and that permissions are correct
  • the directory is that of the webserver, and I have no read access to it.
  • Furthermore, in “optional Perl modules”: CGI::Cookie 1.24 Digest::SHA1 Warning: not installed. May be required for SHA1 password encoding
  • Text::Diff 0.35 CGI::Session Warning: not installed. May be required for sessions
  • patch Warning: 'patch' program was found on the PATH but is not GNU patch - this may cause problems. Unrecognized switch: --version

• And also an error in “security setup”:
  • Error: The CGI::Session Perl module is required for session support, but is not available.

I would like to remind you to the fact that I have my old TWiki (older version) still running on that same server!

Thanks for the support,

Roeland

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-- TWikiGuest - 22 Feb 2006

Answer

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Hello,

For the CGI bin directory, I think you should first check the path to make sure it is correct - maybe you could try with a dummy script, given the fact that you previously run an older version on the same server - if it does not work, maybe you should try to contact your hosting staff.

For the CGI::Session module, you may download it from http://search.cpan.org/~sherzodr/CGI-Session-4.03/lib/CGI/Session.pm and you may install it in you account - for this to work, you will have to set the correct path in bin/LocalLib.cfg for @localPerlLibPath in order to indicate the path to your locally installed modules.

Aled Alexander

-- AledAlexander - 22 Feb 2006

Note that TWiki-4 adds a number of new capabilities to TWiki, so it's dependencies have changed as a result. You can ignore and warnings. It looks as if those errors are related to the CGI::Session module, and to your webserver configuration. I'm sure you have resolved them by now.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 12 Mar 2006