Question

When creating a new topic I am getting a corrupt page asking me to register as a new user, starting like that:

[...]

* Simply fill out the TWikiRegistration form. It only takes a minute.

0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:20:22 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux mod_perl/1.26 cache-control: max-age=86400 Expires: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:20:25 GMT Last-Modified: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:20:25 GMT content-length: 12365 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html; charset= I

and then the edit mask is visible.

My question is not so much what the reason for this strange behaviour is (might be hard to tell from remote) but rather how I can debug this problem myself.

How can I find out what "edit" does, what templates are called etc. Is there a debug mode ? Where can I find logfiles (apart from $TWIKIHOME/data/logyyyymm.txt and /var/log/apache/* ) ?

I did uncomment the two debug statements in 'edit', but I didnt see any additional logs anywhere.

I am using the gnu skin.

• TWiki version: 01 Feb 2003
• Perl version: 5.6.1
• Web server & version: Apache/1.3.26 mod_perl/1.26
• Server OS: Debian GNU/Linux Woody PPC
• Web browser & version: Mozilla/5.0
• Client OS: Linux

-- GoetzGolla - 25 Jun 2003

Answer

The SupportGuidelines and TWikiDebugging are your friends ... I'm genuinely curious as to how the SupportGuidelines could be any more prominent on Support.WebHome - suggestions welcome.

-- RichardDonkin - 25 Jun 2003

Reply

Yes, TWikiDebugging was my friend, thanks a lot.

Here is why I didnt find it:

I was first searching for information on how to debug twiki problems. Naturally I was looking on the Support WebHome. I checked AnsweredQuestions, TWikiDocumentation, TWikiFAQ. It was all not what I was looking for.

I also saw SupportGuidelines. To me this appeared to be a manual how to ask a support question, not how to debug a TWiki Problem. So what I did is read it up to the point when I thought I was ready to ask my question.

I did overlook the one and only TWikiDebugging link on that page. I dont think it is very prominent there, and also I wasnt expecting it there.

To my brain, the TWikiDebugging link should also appear on the Support Webhome Page.

Hope that was helpful, Richard

-- GoetzGolla - 05 Jul 2003

Thanks for responding - you are clearly too expert for the SupportGuidelines page, which does only have passing references to TWikiDebugging anyway. However, the Support web is mainly for people who won't get into debugging anyway, so I'm not sure it should be linked from WebHome. I'll make the link on SupportGuidelines more prominent.

-- RichardDonkin - 07 Jul 2003