Question

I'm installing a TWiki onto an Apache server I don't control. The problem I'm having is not TWiki's fault: I've boiled it down to this: a (Perl) program that executes a command in backticks will work in the cgi-bin directory, but hangs in the htdocs/wiki/bin directory. The program is no longer than

print `/bin/ls`;

(after the content-type header) and it makes no difference what the command in the `` is. If I put anything else besides backticks in the program it executes properly. I have a .htaccess in the wiki/bin directory with a SetHandler cgi-script directive. The cgi-bin directory has no .htaccess file. htdocs is a sibling of cgi-bin. mod_perl is not running.

I got nowhere with extensive googling. There were some postings alleging a similar problem on Windows servers but this is Linux.

My TWiki question is this: As a last resort I will have to figure out how to install TWiki by moving its programs from htdocs/wiki/bin to cgi-bin. Are there any instructions on that (is it even possible)? I've installed a few TWikis before so I know my way around it.

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-- PeterScott - 06 Oct 2006

Answer

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Just rename bin to cgi-bin and point Apache at the renamed dir. If you can't rename the dir (because of an existing cgi-bin, for example) then just copy the contents. The bin dir isn't refered to from anywhere else.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 13 Oct 2006