Question

I recently migrated twiki to Linux host from a solaris host. In the Linux[new] host the table contents are not displayed. My doubts are that something is going wrong in the SEARCH twiki variabe used. But the page is working in my old host. I can give you the twiki logs if required.

Environment

-- DineshChandrasekar - 01 Oct 2008

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Possibly a TWiki upgrade version mismatch issue. When you migrate data, do not copy the TWiki web.

-- PeterThoeny - 07 Nov 2008

Thanks for your post Peter. By Twiki web, do you mean folders other than data and pub?

-- DineshChandrasekar - 17 Nov 2008

Specifically, don't copy twiki/data/TWiki and twiki/pub/TWiki.

-- PeterThoeny - 17 Nov 2008

in the warning file I am seeing this. Is it some clue about perl?

| 17 Nov 2008 - 07:23 | Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at /path/to/twiki/lib//TWiki/Sandbox.pm line 359.

Probably duing the call to egrep, this error occurs.

-- DineshChandrasekar - 17 Nov 2008

In insecure directory, set this in configure (or twiki/lib/LocalSite.cfg) :

$TWiki::cfg{SafeEnvPath} = '/bin:/usr/bin';

I am not clear on what is not working. %TOC% or?

-- PeterThoeny - 17 Nov 2008

The code which is not working is in %<nop>SEARCH% which is used to populate tables defined by piping symbols. But then after trying our your first suggestion of not to copy TWiki web [ still the same error], I tired looking into warning file generated. This had the insecure directory error.

-- DineshChandrasekar - 18 Nov 2008

Configured $TWiki::cfg{SafeEnvPath} = '/bin:/usr/bin' . But still the same insecure directory error. Will this error affect populating the tables using %SEARCH% function?

-- DineshChandrasekar - 18 Nov 2008

First few lines of the warning file

| 18 Nov 2008 - 02:21 | Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at /Path/to/twiki/lib//TWiki/Sandbox.pm line 359. TWiki::Sandbox::sysCommand('TWiki::Sandbox=HASH(0x814630)','/usr/bin/egrep -l -H -- %TOKEN|U% %FILES|F%','TOKEN','[T]opicClassification.*value\=.*[P]atchReleasesHVUni"','FILES','ARRAY(0x127b0f0)') called at /Path/tp//twiki/lib//TWiki/Store/RcsFile.pm line 349

-- DineshChandrasekar - 18 Nov 2008

This looks like a version mismatch issue. Remove twiki/lib/LocalSite.cfg, run configure and reconfigure the settings.

-- PeterThoeny - 18 Nov 2008

Thanks a ton Peter!! It worked like magic!! Appreciate your help in this.

-- DineshChandrasekar - 18 Nov 2008