Question

Hi,

I've installed twiki 4.0.2 on my laptop, carefully following the WindowsCookbook. Everything looks to work fine, except when I attemp t to confirm a registration, unpon when I get the message:

TWiki detected an internal error - please check your TWiki logs and webserver logs for more information.

path -x,v -i -t-none -ko %FILENAME|F% of path,v failed to create history file

Apache error log shows:

[Thu May 04 13:34:17 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] ********************************\n
[Thu May 04 13:34:17 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] /usr/bin/rcs -x,v -i -t-none -ko %FILENAME|F% of /twiki/data/Main/NeilSaunders.txt,v failed to create history file  at /twiki/lib/TWiki/Store/RcsWrap.pm line 101.\n
[Thu May 04 13:34:17 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \n
[Thu May 04 13:34:17 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] ********************************\n
[Thu May 04 13:34:17 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] ********************************\n
[Thu May 04 13:34:17 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] /usr/bin/rcs -x,v -i -t-none -ko %FILENAME|F% of /twiki/data/Main/NeilSaunders.txt,v failed to create history file  at /twiki/lib/TWiki/Store/RcsWrap.pm line 101.\n
[Thu May 04 13:34:17 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \n
[Thu May 04 13:34:17 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] ********************************\n
[Thu May 04 13:34:17 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] ********************************\n
[Thu May 04 13:34:17 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] /usr/bin/rcs -x,v -i -t-none -ko %FILENAME|F% of /twiki/data/Main/NeilSaunders.txt,v failed to create history file  at /twiki/lib/TWiki/Store/RcsWrap.pm line 101.\n
[Thu May 04 13:34:17 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \n
[Thu May 04 13:34:17 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] ********************************\n
[Thu May 04 13:34:17 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] /usr/bin/rcs -x,v -i -t-none -ko %FILENAME|F% of /twiki/data/Main/NeilSaunders.txt,v failed to create history file  at /twiki/lib/TWiki/Store/RcsWrap.pm line 101.\n

I've tried numerous things to resolve this, including chmod'ing /twiki/data/Main 777, but without any luck. Any assistance anyone can offer would be most appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Neil Saunders

Environment

-- NeilSaunders - 04 May 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

The code around RcsWrap.pm line 101 says this occasioally happens under windows, but unfortunately offers no clue why or how to fix it.

Maybe you need to chown the directory to the user id under which your Apache server is running?

-- HaraldJoerg - 04 May 2006

Oddly enough, I was gettign a very simliar error but it turns out that any missing directories in my $PATH were the root cause. I re-ran configure.cgi and removed elements of my path that had missing subdirs and it now works.

-- EricLaw - 05 Feb 2009

Thank you for reporting back for the benefit of other community members.

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Feb 2009