Question

I don't understand steps 4 and 5 of the installation instructions. When I point my browser to http://myserver/twiki/bin/view the screen looks like this:

%HTTP_EQUIV_ON_VIEW%                                                                             TWiki webs: 
%WIKILOGOALT%                                                                                    %WIKIWEBLIST%
              TWiki > Main > WebHome                                                          

Main . { %WEBTOPICLIST% }

Topic WebHome . { Create | Attach | Ref-By | Printable | Diffs | r1.1 | More }
Revision                                                                       %WEBCOPYRIGHT%

• TWiki version: 01 Feb 2003
• Perl version: 5.8.0
• Web server & version: apache 2.0.40
• Server OS: Redhat Linux (2.4.20-18.9)
• Web browser & version: Mozilla 1.2.1 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225)
• Client OS: same as server

-- PaulSue - 23 Jul 2003

Answer

Those options are set through web interface. First U need to get the Twiki running. The problem I see is with TWiki.cfg file which is located in /lib directory. Make Sure U have configured it correctly. U can test whether Ur Twiki.cfg file is configured correctly by going to http://urserver/twiki/bin/testenv . Look for the red lines and make appropriate changes. Hope this helps..

-- VamsiKrishna - 23 Jul 2003

Please provide the information requested in SupportGuidelines, particularly the testenv output and the TWiki.cfg file (as attachments here). Without this it's not possible to tell what is happening, though it's probably a TWiki.cfg file problem.

-- RichardDonkin - 24 Jul 2003

Got past this now .. had to change nobody to apache in the "*txt,v" files. Have another problem, but I'll start a new topic for it.

Thanks.

-- PaulSue - 24 Jul 2003

Confusion arises from terminology used in the Install Doc., Step 4, which says "From your WEB browser, edit the TWikiPreferences topic in the Twiki:Twiki web...etc"

Once you understood what the sentence means, everything is VERY obvious. But I spent a whole afternoon today trying to make sense out of the phrase: "using the browser to edit a topic" is something that makes sense once you are running TWiki, and the installation document doesn't make it explicit that at this stage you can already do that. Further, it only says how to do that in the NEXT step...

If I had written the installation instructions, (and I didn't use Spanish ) I would've written the first sentence of Step 4 a little more extensively:

* Point your WEB browser to http://yourdomain.com/twiki/bin/view. That will take you to the Twiki > Main > WebHome topic of your TWiki installation.

* Select Twiki.Twiki, the second of four webs automatically configured, and listed in the "TWiki Site Map" table (described in the second column as TWiki.TWiki -- Welcome, Registration and other Starting Points).

* Once in Twiki>Twiki >WebHome, click on Topics on the top bar. From the resulting list of topics, select TWikiPreferences, and edit the topic as Guest.

Yes, I know, it's a lot of words, but somebody should remember that at this stage some of the installers may have (as I still do) a big soup of different operational modes in their heads, between admin-install mode and actually running TWiki to do changes that will affect the installation.

--Main.CarlosCaballero - 20 Aug 2003

I think you have a good point, and it is not too many words. I hope somebody will carry the change into the documentation.

-- RandyKramer - 20 Aug 2003