Seems like there's lots of install issues with TWiki - especially with user authentication. I think the /bin/testenv script goes a long way to help, but seems to me people get stuck with the user permissions and other configuration. I hate to think this poses a stumbling block causing numerous would-be TWiki users to abandon it!

So I'm proposing that TWiki gets distributed as one self-contained package with scripts that automatically set the permission and ownership flags. Yeah, it'd only really work for those with root access and I guess I'd withdraw this idea if I'm one of the few that do.

Similarly you could distribute a nice, neat, trimmed down, tweaked version of Apache with it to give optimal performance and minimal configuration problems.

-- MattWalsh - 18 Jan 2002

It's fair enough to point to useful packages such as Indigo Perl (which bundles Apache and Perl, see separate pages on TWiki on Windows), but including a web server and Perl package with TWiki would hugely increase the download size, and of course there's the issue of which web server and which OS?

Providing a better TWikiUnixInstaller is the real solution IMO.

-- RichardDonkin - 18 Jan 2002