Question

I have managed to get TWiki running on my Windows 2003 Server, and can access the bin/configure page, but i cannot save the configuration.

I receive the following error:

Configuration file /benhomewiki/lib/LocalSite.cfg does not exist, and I cannot write a new configuration file due to these errors:

/benhomewiki/lib/ is not writable

You can view the default configuration, but you will not be able to save.

I have previously installed a TWiki version 3 with no problems by following the Windows Install Cookbook and it works without any major issues.

I tried to install 4.1.2 using the same steps as i did with my previous version, but have 2 issues.

If i use the Include statement in my HTTPD.conf for Apache to point to TWIKI_HTTPD.conf, Apache will not start as a service. If i remove this line, Apache starts and i can navigate to the Configure URL, but i receive the error message above regarding the /lib folder not being writable.

Environment

-- BenDale - 25 Apr 2007

Answer

Ben, While I've avoided Windows for rather a while, I think that the error means exactly what it says. The user that Apache, and thus the configure cgi script is running as needs to have permission to write to /benhomewiki/lib/

I can't recal how to do this anymore, but Windows, especially windows2003 server does have file access permissions, they're just not as visible as in UNIX.

-- SvenDowideit - 26 Apr 2007

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-- PeterThoeny - 02 Jun 2007