SID-01202: Upgrading Apache for Twiki 4.1.2

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.1.2	Perl version:	5.8.2
Category:	CategoryError	Server OS:	AIX 5.3	Last update:	14 years ago

We have an AIX 5.3 server running TWiki 4.1.2 and due to security restrictions the version of Apache needs to be upgraded from 2.2.4 to something 2.2.14+ (I have selected the current version 2.2.19).

I worked through all of the hastle of getting and building Apache 2.2.19, stopped the current apache and replaced it (the entire bin, modules, etc directories) with the new versions. I use the same httpd.conf and twiki.conf files (with slight tweaks), and the system will start up but whenever I try to view a web I will get

Not Found

The requested URL /twiki/bin/view/MyWeb/WebHome was not found on this server.

If I swap out the apache directories with the old ones, it works fine. I read this post http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/ConfigUninitialisedValueError and it sounded similar to my problem so I used CPAN to update my version of CGI from 3.28 to 3.55, but that didn't solve the problem.

-- TWikiGuest - 2011-06-09

Discussion and Answer

Forgot to mention, if instead of going through the view script I spell out a direct url to /www/twiki/pub/... I can access attachments or images (if the access rights are correct). I have tried some of the steps at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiDebugging but am not getting a lot of details. I suspect this is a Perl problem. Am I missing any steps in upgrading the Apache version? Is there additional config that is needed?

-- TWikiGuest - 2011-06-09

The not found error is an indication that the /twiki/bin is not configured properly as a cgi-bin directory.

Is the new Apache picking up the conf files in the directory where you have your twiki.conf file? Read the docs where Apache puts the optional conf files. For Apache 2.2 on CentOS for example it is in /etc/httpd/conf.d/.

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-07-30

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-- PeterThoeny - 2011-09-08

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