Question

I banged my head for almost 2.5 hrs trying to manually install TWiki on my windows box. (mod_perl seems the sticking point - and my prior 3 TWiki installations on client sites were on *nix)

So I decided to try the "easy" installer. Installing was easy enough. But what do I do to get the thing to run? Simply clicking "Twiki" from the Windows Start->Twiki menu doesn't work, bring up a browser window reporting "The page cannot be found". Attempted replacing computer name with localhost and 127.0.0.1 as well, but to no avail.

Is there something I am missing? Is it a problem that the installer is looking to pull files from the internet, and is being blocked by our firewall? If that would be the case, how to get around it?

I ran this on a local machine outside of our corporate VPN and it installed NO PROBLEM, so my suspicion is firewall...

Thanks VERY much.

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-- AlexandraStehman - 25 Jan 2008

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I found the problem. I dissected the TWiki shortcuts created in the Start menu. They were created incorrectly. The install process installs the app to start at http://<computername>:8080/twiki/bin/view not what the shortcut is created to be, http://<computername>/twiki/bin/view.

-- AlexandraStehman - 26 Jan 2008

That is extremely odd. The installer installs Apache, and is currently written to assume that your apache is set up "as it expects" - ie, on port 80.

I have to presume that you have a previously set up apache? Those sorts of cases will be increasingly hard to support

-- SvenDowideit - 26 Jan 2008

Sorry, closing this question after more than 30 days of inactivity. Feel free to re-open if needed.

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Mar 2008