Question

I'm seeing the following error in my httpd error log:

[Wed Nov 02 14:36:32 2005] [error] [client 10.2.3.109] File does not exist: /usr /local/www/twiki/usr, referer: http://somehost.west.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Internal/ TWikiAdminNextSteps?

Environment

I did some "find -exec greps" for "File does not exist" and it does not seem to be coming from TWiki code. It could be Perl, Apache, or FreeBSD. Has anyone seen this before? I saw the note about .htaccess file (http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/PathVarForTWikiRegistration). However I examined the .htaccess file and there does not seem to be a typo there. I'll attach that as well.

Help is appreciated and thanks in advance!

BTW I have changed the FQDN and server admin mail list in the attached testenv output. -- MarkYoshikawa - 04 Nov 2005

Answer

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If I am looking at this right, there are inconsistent file paths:

http://somehost.west.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Internal/ TWikiAdminNextSteps? ?

and

/usr /local/www/twiki/usr

and from your testenv output

$dataDir: /usr/local/www/twiki/data

Note

This is the data directory where TWiki stores all topics.

You might start by looking here.

-- SteveRJones - 05 Nov 2005

Thanks Steve, but it seems with any page that I edit, this error occurs. I'm pretty sure I included $dataDir in the path where I did the find -exec. I tried to look for the string in the files in the whole distribution dir of "twiki/usr" and came up with nothing. I realize however that possibly the DOCUMENT_ROOT variable which is /usr/local/www/twiki might somehow have "/usr" appended to it. I did the same thing for that, find . -exec grep -H "usr" {} \; | less and then searched for DOCUMENT_ROOT. Maybe I'm not understanding how to look. Please let me know.

-- MarkYoshikawa - 12 Nov 2005

There seems to be an issue with DOCUMENT_ROOT and the TWiki path settings. If DOCUMENT_ROOT is set to /usr/local/www/twiki then REQUEST_URI would be /bin/testenv unless you specify individual directory settings in Apache's httpd.conf file.

If you set just the DOCUMENT_ROOT, all path settings need to be in relation to this, e.g. $scriptUrlPath = "/bin" and $pubUrlPath = "/pub".

-- PeterThoeny - 12 Nov 2005

Ok Peter Thanks! I'll check that out and will report what I find out.

-- MarkYoshikawa - 16 Nov 2005