Question

We are trying to create a Twiki forum for our group of software developers on Linux based server. We are using Red Hat Linux Ver 8. So far we have done the following steps:

1. Downloaded Twiki from http://twiki.org/download.html 2. Untarred the .tar 3. Configured Twiki files 4. Trying to set environment variable in Twiki.cfg and 5. Trying to configure httpd.conf

PROBLEM: WE ARE FAILING TO CONFIGURE THESE TWO FILE. WHICH RESULTS INTO FAILING OF HTTP SERVER. THE SERVER CAN NOT START.

Could you please provide these two files.

Environment

-- NikhilKarkhanis - 19 Aug 2003

Answer

Have you looked at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiDocumentation#TWiki_Installation_Guide ? It has pretty detailed instructions on how to install TWiki. Your Apache installation comes a default httpd.conf file and you should modify that to include directives necessary for deploying TWiki (the actual directives are included in the above document, as well). As for TWiki.cfg, it comes with your TWiki installation (under the lib/ directory). You should go through the file and change various things to correspond to your site (the default URL, various paths, admin's email, etc). TWiki.cfg is well commented, so you shouldn't have many problems.

Good luck!

-- ArshavirGrigorian - 19 Aug 2003