Question

I'm installling TWiki on a box at work. I admit that this is a kind of odd TWiki, as it was "packagized" here... we have a company software packaging system...

After installation I couldn't start Apache. I was getting CGI.pm conflicts with mod_perl, of the form

Can't call method "register_cleanup" on an undefined value 

I Googled the error; it's pretty common. I even managed to follow the suggestions for a fix, and that got Apache running.

But then I got stuck at the next, similar error. I wasn't interested in re-writing CGI.pm. Eventually, I just turned off mod_perl. SO the problems are gone but I don't understand them. I've never hit this with any of the straight-up, vanilla, "outside" TWiki installations I've done.

I am assuming this is all caused by a mismatch between one or more of TWiki, Apache, mod_perl, perl, and CGI.pm. And, I hate to admit it, but thanks to our company packkaging system, I'm not in a position to pull any of those straight of the Net. :-(

Is anyone familiar with this problem? I'd feel better if someone ellse had seen it.

Environment

-- VickiBrown - 21 Nov 2007

Answer

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You could try SpeedyCGI, FastCGI (see TWikiStandAlone) or similar perhaps. Maybe posting a question over on ModPerl or asking on TWikiIRC would help as well, as this is quite specialised.

-- RichardDonkin - 22 Nov 2007

I'm afraid asking in a ModPerl forum wouldn't be helpful. The mod_perl folks have documented the problem as well as a solution (unfortunately, not a working solution). And I don't really care if this TWiki is run under mod_perl or FastCGI or plain old CGI.

What I care about is finding someone else who has seen this problem specifically with TWiki. It's a fairly common problem, per se. I can't believe it's not been seen before in a TWiki 4 installation.

One of our inside folks suggests I revert to Perl 6.6... that doesn't seem right. There have to be people using mod_perl with TWiki 4 and Perl 5,.8.5.

-- VickiBrown - 27 Nov 2007

Closing this support question after more than 30 days of inactivity. Please feel free to re-open if needed.

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Jan 2008