Question

I used the UpgradeTwiki to go to 4.0.2 and after figuring out that I should not be root, and then running configure, I cannot view the home page.

Help appreciated, thanks.

I get the following error in the browser:

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

RCS: stream open path failed: No such file or directory

and this in the error_log for apache2 (I put x in IP address):

[Thu Apr 20 17:29:31 2006] [notice] cannot use a full URL in a 401 ErrorDocument directive --- ignoring!

[Thu Apr 20 17:29:31 2006] [error] [client 128.x.x.x] [Thu Apr 20 17:29:31 2006] view: Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /home/twiki/lib/TWiki.pm line 1109.

[Thu Apr 20 17:29:32 2006] [error] [client 128.x.x.x] [Thu Apr 20 17:29:32 2006] view: Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /home/twiki/lib/TWiki.pm line 1109.

[Thu Apr 20 17:29:32 2006] [error] [client 128.x.x.x] ******************************

[Thu Apr 20 17:29:32 2006] [error] [client 128.x.x.x] RCS: stream open /home/twiki/pub/Main/WebHome/_filetypes.txt failed: No such file or directory at /home/twiki/lib/TWiki/Store/RcsFile.pm line 832.

[Thu Apr 20 17:29:32 2006] [error] [client 128.x.x.x]

[Thu Apr 20 17:29:32 2006] [error] [client 128.x.x.x] ******************************

[Thu Apr 20 17:29:32 2006] [error] [client 128.x.x.x] RCS: stream open /home/twiki/pub/Main/WebHome/_filetypes.txt failed: No such file or directory at /home/twiki/lib/TWiki/Store/RcsFile.pm line 832.

Environment

-- FransTrouw - 21 Apr 2006

Answer

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After looking around some more I see 2 related questions:

RCSUnlockingIssue - this has the same problem as I do with _filetypes.txt

I added the WebHome/_filetypes.txt and now I can see the home page

BUT

The page has shifted menu etc as described in

EerieWierdnessWithFirefox

which does not seem to have a solution (I see the same effect in explorer).

At this point I have rolled back to my previous version as 4.0.2 seems on the face of it not to be quite there yet for users like me.

Still a twiki user!

-- FransTrouw - 21 Apr 2006

Aha. I found _filetypes.txt. It has to exist as an attachment to whatever topic you specify in %ICONTOPIC. So find where you set ICONTOPIC, and check that _filetypes.txt exists in the corresponding pub directory.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 21 Apr 2006

In Dakar ICONTOPIC is set in TWikiPreferences. Be careful when copying over the old data as you may be overwritten.

-- PeterJones - 16 May 2006