Question

I have downloaded twiki, apache, cygwin last week and have not been able to get them to run. I have spent 1/2 day googling for a solution and cant find one. The issue I have is that I can pull up page http://localhost/ fine that shows the welcome to twiki pate. I then try to run the http://localhost/cgi-bin/tenstenv routine as suggested by http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/WindowsInstallCookbook or try to open http://localhost/cgi-bin/view/Main/ and get the same error. When I type in the URL and hit enter the browser starts to act like it will open the page and display a msg "Opening page http://localhost/cgi-bin/view/Main/ and will sit there trying to open a page and display no msg. It dosn't display any errors and dosn't find the page. It looks like an issue with /bin or /cgi-bin (that is pointing to /bin) but I cant figure out how to tell what is wrong. The only error I have found in any of the log files is in apache error log file saying "File does not exist: c:/twiki/cgi-bin/view/Main/WebHome"

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-- ScottWBlack - 13 Nov 2005

Answer

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Attaching TWiki.cfg here would help. It would also be useful to post the relevant parts of httpd.conf (or just attach the whole file), and bin/.htaccess - these are what map the CGI URLs into real filenames, and enable CGI.

It may be as simple as using http://localhost/bin/testenv to run testenv - that's the URL recommended in the cookbook. What happens if you do that?

-- RichardDonkin - 15 Nov 2005

I had tried both http://localhost/cgi-bin/testenv and http://localhost/bin/testenv both give the same results the status bar at the bottom of the web browser shows that it is trying to redirect the browser to a new page but it never goes anywhere. I will post the files.

Thanks for your time!

-- ScottWBlack - 16 Nov 2005

Why do you use /cgi-bin instead of /bin? Have you tried to use /bin instead?

-- JoachimBlum - 17 Nov 2005

yes, both /cgi-bin and /bin give the same results.

Thanks

-- ScottWBlack - 17 Nov 2005

> Why do you use /cgi-bin instead of /bin?

Cgi-bin is the standard for scripts run through the browser. I even suggested RenameBinToCgiBin

-- MartinCleaver - 17 Nov 2005

Try DakarRelease. Its much easier to install.

-- MartinCleaver - 17 Nov 2005

Installed Dakar. The http://localhost/bin/configure page fixed whatever error I was having. It looks like it is running now. I will play with it a little more and if it works OK I will close this page and add my name to the installed list.

Thanks

-- ScottWBlack - 18 Nov 2005