Question

Where to go after step 7 (step 8 not clear, what is TWikiPreferences? is it my /twiki/data/TWiki/TWikiPreferences.txt?). All I wanted at this stage was to see a twiki page originating on my server, create it, edit it, save it, accessing it from the Intranet and Internet, etc. This is not clear for me from the Windows Installation Cookbook. I tried to open some of the Sandbox txt files but I see them as simple text not as twiki. Also the testenv shouldn't look as a twiki page with Edit revisions buttons, etc?

Environment

-- FlorianRadulescu - 05 Nov 2004

Answer

testenv does not look like a normal twiki page.

By step 8 I assume you are refering to the WindowsInstallCookbook section.

You should at this stage be able to view and edit your TWikiPreferences topic as a web page. It should be located somewhere like: http://yourdomain.com/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiPreferences

-- SamHasler - 06 Nov 2004

Thanks Sam, I was able to see the TWiki pages after I changed the safeEnvPath from "/bin" to $safeEnvPath = "/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin;/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32"; The /cygdrive/c/WINNT is where my syatem (Windows) directory is located. This was strange as I don't think that I'm using ActiveState Perl. Now is clearer also what TWikiPreferences is.

-- FlorianRadulescu - 06 Nov 2004

This is not right. After a better check, I see that the testenv is giving me a new warning after changing this way the path, as it cannot find diff anymore. What should be wrong?

-- FlorianRadulescu - 09 Nov 2004

I've just been though the battle of setting up on a Windows XP laptop myself. I'm an old (nearly 30 years of it!) UNIX maven. It was very ... odd ... for me.

• Take a look in ...../lib/TWiki/TWiki.cfg for the paths to the perl libraries.

Is this going to be a Internet visible machine?

-- AntonAylward - 11 Nov 2004