Question

Hi, I have one installation twiki/ under the documentroot. i created one more mine/ parallel to the twiki/ to do some testing. I ran configure inside mine/, changed all the path variables, gave a new tmp dir and saved. But, the current installation under twiki/ started misbehaving and the links were pointing to the corresponding ones under mine/ for all the users. This created a confusion and finally I had to remove mine/ and rerun twiki/bin/configure and restored the paths. Why it happened? How can I run a test installation and production one side by side. Thanks in advance Umapathy

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-- UmapathyS - 23 Jan 2008

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Is your "lib" directory somehow symbolically linked to the same place from both TWiki installations? bin/configure stores the settings in lib/LocalSite.cfg If both installations are referencing the same file you'd have problems like this.

-- GeorgeClark - 25 Jan 2008

Thanks for the respone. I suspected that and already checked it out. Both are different dirs/files. I just copied the whole twiki/ production to a testing dir mine/ There are no softlinks or hardlinks.

-- UmapathyS - 25 Jan 2008

Problem might be that in configure there is also noted the path to the configuration file (LocalSite.cfg) itself. So if you change all the settings/paths in your new configuration (/mine), the settings are saved to the old configuration file (in /twiki) and not to the new one (in /mine), because you called the configure script with these pathes. So you can solve it in two ways: Manually changing the settings in LocalSite.cfg (/mine) or doing reconfiguration in two steps; first change path to LocalSite.cfg, then save and then change all the other paths/settings. Should work..

-- IngoBlickling - 26 Jan 2008

Forgot something, sorry. If you do the reconfiguration in two steps, you still have to manually change the path to the LocalSite.cfg in /twiki installation afterwards.

-- IngoBlickling - 26 Jan 2008

Thanks.

-- UmapathyS - 28 Jan 2008