Question

I have gotten testenv to work on a GoDaddy hosted site. Like many others, this is a site with neither root access nor shell. (If I ever make some progress on this issue, I'll be reading TopicSaveErrorOnISPServer very carefully.) Attempts to view other pages (e.g. view) results in a "Page Not Found" error with the rather suspicious URL of:

http://www.adozu.com/cgi/twiki_bin/oops/twiki_bin/view?template=oopsnoweb&param1=ERROR%20twiki_bin.view%20Missing%20Web

I'm attaching the TWiki.cfg and setlib.cfg files.

There is another issue, but probably unrelated. Consider the environment variables set up by GoDaddy's server:

SCRIPT_FILENAME   /html/cgi/twiki_bin/testenv
PATH_TRANSLATED   /home/content/r/d/p/rdpoor/html/twiki_bin/testenv

Note that it's impossible to chdir to $SCRIPT_FILENAME, since it's absolute and not rooted in the proper directory. This caused my first attempts at using testenv to fail. I thought of using $PATH_TRANSLATED instead, but the path is wrong: the 'cgi' has been ellided out of existence! (This cause my second attempt to fail!:)) I am now using the construct:

    if ( $0 && $0 =~ m!^(.+)/[^/]+$! ) {
        chdir $1;
    }
    unshift @INC, '.';
    require 'setlib.cfg';

to load setlib.cfg in all of the scripts. I include this not to show my burgeoning Perl prowess, but rather to show my ignorance: I have no idea if this is related to the real problem mentioned above.

Environment

-- RobertPoor - 14 Dec 2005

Answer

You need to get hold of the web server error logs for your site - these should tell you what's happening. Also, check the .htaccess in the main and bin directories - they may be redirecting to a Godaddy-provided ErrorDocument page, which is why you get the TWiki oops script running but don't get the actual oops output.

-- RichardDonkin - 16 Dec 2005