Question

I have installed Twiki a couple of times now, and every time, all pages format is skewed. The left 'Main' menu bar is down toward the bottom of the page, 'Jump' and 'Search' boxes are messed up... and so on. It looks like my twiki isn't finding the template files or somthing. I have disabled all the plug-ins to make sure it's not that. All path settings seem to be fine. The twiki is at: http://www.carvercc.com/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view Can someone help me? Thank you.

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-- ChadCarver - 21 Sep 2006

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It is likely to be a problem with permissions so you could check them (I use 770 in data and pub). Check your Apache error log aswell. When I tried to open your css file (/cgi-bin/twiki/pub/TWiki/PatternSkin/layout.css), I got a 500 Internal Server Error, which suggests the file cannot be found.

Edit: You might want to do something about the security about your site, since I can view your configure script, which isn't good. (http://www.carvercc.com/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/configure)

-- AndrewRJones - 21 Sep 2006

Maybe not, but I feel that for the most part I've gotten the permission stuff fixed. I can see the layout.css file, and not see the configure file (thanks). I've changed all the directories to 770 , as they were almost all 755. It's still acting like it's not reading some css file right because it's all askew. The Apache error log has a lot of 'error: file is writable by others'. I attatched the most recent error log entries. Thanks a ton for your help.

-- ChadCarver - 21 Sep 2006

Depending on your hosting provider, you might need to tighten the permissions, which the error messages indicate. Take away the group write permission for directories and files; e.g. the directories to 755. Make sure the diretcory and files are owned by your webserver user ccarver.

-- PeterThoeny - 21 Sep 2006