SID-01542: Path problems: links point to /Main/WebHome

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:		Perl version:	v5.14.2
Category:	CategoryInstallation	Server OS:	Ubuntu 12.04, kernel 3.5.2-linode45	Last update:	13 years ago

I installed twiki yesterday.

Links are pointing to, for example, /Main/WebHome rather than to /twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome. I realize this is good in that the links are shorter and more readable, and it was probably done intentionally. But with my setup it doesn't quite work this way. If I type in "/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome" it works, so the files are actually in there.

I'd be happy to email my apache config file and the twiki configuration, too, if that would help.

I guess this is something to fix with a script alias or just an alias, but from reading about those they seem to do the opposite thing. That is, those would seem to help if I wanted to shorten the /twiki/bin/view part to just "/'. I will keep trying that, though.

I have installed this within a virtual host on a linode server.

Thanks in advance.

-- BenDugan - 2012-09-26

Discussion and Answer

How did you configure? It is safest to use the ApacheConfigGenerator.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-09-26

I'm sorry my response was slow: I did not realize you had written back.

I did not use the ApacheConfigGenerator because my server is set up with virtual hosts. Our server is on linode, and I followed their guide which included a template /etc/apache2/conf.d/twiki.conf file. But this guide isn't exactly right: its for an older version of ubuntu and it assumes this will be the only thing running on this host. Still, its a good guide:

http://library.linode.com/web-applications/wikis/twiki/ubuntu-10.10-maverick

I will try to run ApacheConfigGenerator and compare what it makes to what I put in my apache config files. I'll let you know what I find.

Thanks very much for your rely and, of course, for your invaluable development of twiki!

-- BenDugan - 2012-09-27

I use linode and ubuntu. This is what I have in the apache config for shorter urls. It works.

ScriptAlias /bin "/var/www/twiki/bin"

Alias /pub "/var/www/twiki/pub"

Alias / "/var/www/twiki/bin/view/"

<Directory "/var/www/twiki/bin">

Options +ExecCGI

</Directory>

And in configure script

{ScriptUrlPath} = '/bin';

{ScriptUrlPaths}{view} = '';

{PubUrlPath} = '/pub';

-- EnriqueCadalso - 2012-10-17

Thanks SO much Enrique! These alias examples got it working. (My paths are different, but that's a detail.)

I'm sorry I didn't reply sooner. I just got a chance to try it.

-- BenDugan - 2012-10-23

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