Question

I'm trying to install the TagMePlugin on the Debain VM TWiki. When I run the TagMePlugin_installer.pl, it tries to the Twiki.org archive site, even though the files are local. The VM server is NAT and then it has to go through my company proxy(which of course fails). How do I modify the 'my $PACKAGE_URL' line to point to the local directory? I tried '//twiki-vm/home/httpd/twiki/TagMePlugin'; and 'file://home version with no luck.

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-- TomKline - 20 Aug 2007

Answer

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You shouldn't need to use the PACKAGES_URL. Define $TWIKI_PACKAGES to point to the local directory where you have saved the zips, and it should pick that up.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 20 Aug 2007

what directory/file is $TWIKI_PACKAGES defined in?

-- TomKline - 22 Aug 2007

I searched on $TWIKI_PACKAGES and found another support article. All I had to do was extract the zip file TagMePlugin.zip into the root directory of twiki, I did not have to run the TagMePlugin_installer script. Then I went into my TWiki configure page to enable the plugin. Why the install doc overlooks these first steps I'll never know.

-- TomKline - 22 Aug 2007

The installation instructions are tailored for automatic installs. Would be nice to describe also the manual install steps (simple as you discovered.)

On proxy, you can configure TWiki to be aware of a proxy. Run the configure script.

-- PeterThoeny - 27 Aug 2007