SID-02510: Top level menu and title bar disfigured

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	6.1.0	Perl version:	v5.36.0 (installed from istallation medium)
Category:	CategorySkin	Server OS:	Debian GNU/Linux 12	Last update:	2 years ago

I'm really not the best admin. So I just installed me a Debian 12 on a VirtialBox VM ( V 7.0.6 r155176 ) httpd is installed in /usr/local/apache2, TWiki is located on a 20GB device at the path /data/www/twiki rcs, ci, co an rlog are located in /usr/local bin, since the system had installed rcs v5.9.4 and TWiki insisted on Version 5.7. Hence I got me the tar-ball from GNU and compiled Version 5.7 and de-installed the 5.9.4 version.

httpd operates as user "apache" and group "apache" because the names are only mnemonics for UID and GID.

cd /data/www mkdir log chown -R apache:apache log twiki That's where I started.

Problem: The Top Menu including with all its entries is disfigured. The pull-down menus aren't there respectively aren't functioning. The title bar which, among others should show the TWiki-logo is also disfigured. All the icons resp. related gifs aren't displayed.

But the configuration page /do/configure is completely intact. I went through this configuration and saved it without making changes, but I had to change the PATH for RCS in /data/www/twiki/lib/LocalSite.cfg manually, as /do/configure didn't provide an according field.

-- Yael Schlichting - 2023-08-05

Discussion and Answer

Likely cause if you can't see pulldown menus, header images, CSS and JS: Your twiki/pub directory is not exposed as HTML docs, or is misconfigured. In configure, your $TWiki::cfg{PubDir} should be /data/www/twiki/pub, your $TWiki::cfg{PubUrlPath} is typically set to /pub. Your apache config setting needs to match your /pub setting, e.g. Alias /pub "/data/www/twiki/pub"

-- Peter Thoeny - 2023-08-06

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