Question

When I try to run the twiki/bin/view script, It hangs on the call to Twiki::Initialize. I am looking for ideas for trying to debug the twiki perl package. I am assuming I have a configuration problem somewhere, but testenv reports everything is fine. I have added writeDebug statements to verify it hangs in the call to Twiki::Initialize(). (This happens if I run the script in a shell, or through apache.) .

• TWiki version: 01 Dec 2001
• Web server: Apache 1.3.22-6 (Ximian RPM)
• Server OS: Linux (Red Hat 7.2)
• Web browser: Mozilla/5.0
• Client OS: Linux (Red Hat 7.2)

Pathnames are: /home/twiki/bin /home/twiki/lib

(I have also tried /local/home/httpd/twiki/bin, etc.)

-- EricChristianson - 06 Aug 2002

Answer

Please follow the debugging ideas in TWikiDebugging, particularly the one about the Apache server log (which may have error messages from Perl). It would also be good to run the view script from the command line to see exactly where it hangs - using a debugger should show what's happening.

-- RichardDonkin - 07 Aug 2002