Hello!

I'm trying to get TWiki running as a non root user with authentication via .htpasswd and SSL. I followed http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiDocumentation#TWiki_Installation_Guide (I changed the ending of all scripts to cgi, chmoded 755, updated the path to perl, the locks in *,v and TWiki.cfg).

I can browse every page, but editing is not possible. Whenever I click on an edit link Netscape gives me a "Document contains no data", Internet Explorer just shows the load progress bar and Opera says "Sending request to server..." in an endless loop.

I have already read AnsweredQuestions, AskedQuestions, AssignedQuestions and searched Google. That lead me to RegistrationSubmitFailure where somebody else had gotten the same error message I get in Netscape. The reason had been a bug that should be already fixed.

Testenv.cgi from TWiki 01 Feb 2003 gives me a warning concerning $scriptUrlPath, I don't know how to deal with.

Testenv.cgi also says that something is wrong with setting the locale, but the command

locale -a | grep en_US

delivers

en_US.UTF-8
en_US
en_US.ISO8859-1
en_US.ISO8859-15
en_US.ISO8859-15@euro

So the setting should be ok.

After reading SupportGuidelines I tried the newest Testenv from CVS by copying it over the Testenv.cgi, changing the path to Perl and making the script executable, but that failed with an Internal Server Error.

• TWiki version: 01 Feb 2003
• Perl version: Unix 5.6.1
• Web server & version: Roxen Challenger/1.3.121
• Server OS: SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-18 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
• Web browser & version: Netscape 4.79, Opera 7.11/Linux, Internet Explorer 6.0, Opera 6.12/Solaris
• Client OS: FreeBSD 5.0, Solaris 8, Solaris 9, Windows 98

-- DanielGrund - 03 Jun 2003

Answer

Seems like a TWiki.cfg setting problem. Your testenv reports this:

     DOCUMENT_ROOT: /export/mdd0/all/u/user/www/
      DOCUMENT_URI: /~danififi/twiki/bin/testenv.cgi
   SCRIPT_FILENAME: /home/d/danififi/www/twiki/bin/testenv.cgi
       SCRIPT_NAME: /~danififi/twiki/bin/testenv.cgi
 @INC library path: /home/d/danififi/www/twiki/lib
    $scriptUrlPath: /~danififi/twiki/bin
       $pubUrlPath: /~danififi/twiki/pub
           $pubDir: /home/d/danififi/www/twiki/pub
      $templateDir: /home/d/danififi/twiki/templates
          $dataDir: /home/d/danififi/twiki/data

From this it is not clear where your twiki/data, twiki/pub and twiki/template dirs actually are as seen from the file system, but it seems like this:

$scriptUrlPath = "/~danififi/twiki/bin";
$pubUrlPath    = "/~danififi/twiki/pub";
$pubDir        = "/home/d/danififi/www/twiki/pub";
$templateDir   = "/home/d/danififi/www/twiki/templates";
$dataDir       = "/home/d/danififi/www/twiki/data";

If the dirs are somewhere else reflect that in TWiki.cfg.

Depending on the hosting setup, you might have a different file path as seen from the shell login and as seen from the web server. Try this:

$scriptUrlPath = "/~danififi/twiki/bin";
$pubUrlPath    = "/~danififi/twiki/pub";
$pubDir        = "/export/mdd0/all/d/danififi/www/twiki/pub";
$templateDir   = "/export/mdd0/all/d/danififi/www/twiki/templates";
$dataDir       = "/export/mdd0/all/d/danififi/www/twiki/data";

-- PeterThoeny - 04 Jun 2003

Thank you for your answer. I tried to set the variables to

$scriptUrlPath = "/~danififi/twiki/bin";
$pubUrlPath    = "/~danififi/twiki/pub";
$pubDir        = "/export/mdd0/all/d/danififi/www/twiki/pub";
$templateDir   = "/export/mdd0/all/d/danififi/twiki/templates";
$dataDir       = "/export/mdd0/all/d/danififi/twiki/data";

That didn't do it. I logged in on the web server to check every path. They are all ok:

The pubDir, templateDir and dataDir are seen as

$pubDir        = "/export/mdd0/all/d/danififi/www/twiki/pub";
$templateDir   = "/export/mdd0/all/d/danififi/twiki/templates";
$dataDir       = "/export/mdd0/all/d/danififi/twiki/data";

from the file system of the web server. And

/export/mdd0/all/d/danififi/www

is the web server document root which can be accessed via

$defaultHost/~danififi

from outside. So $scriptUrlPath matches $pubDir.

In fact

/export/mdd0/all/d

is remounted as

/home/d

on the web server, so the original setting I had posted first should do the same.

Should Testenv complaining that $scriptUrlPath does not match REQUEST_URI give me a hint? But how should I change $scriptUrlPath to match?

-- DanielGrund - 04 Jun 2003