Question

Hi,

I'm trying to install Twiki 4.0.4 on Solaris 8 (Sparc). I've followed the TwikiOnSolaris10? cookbook. The problem is now after configuring twiki.conf/httpd.conf (through the ApacheConfigGenerator? ) and LocalLib? .cfg, I have trouble accessing https://myhost/twiki/bin/configure page. A window pops up and asks for authentication confidentials and when I clicked on "cancel", the browser gives me 401 Authentication Error with additional 500 Internal Server error instead of redirecting me to the registeration page. I went back and checked that I did include proper IP addresses and usernames in the twiki.conf file for configure access.

I can indeed acesss https://myhost/twiki page though, and browse through the README and other documents.

I cannot locate a .htpasswd file under my /twiki/data folder on the server. Should I manually create it?

One more thing, I chose option "None" for Login Manager..thinking that would eliminate the authentication process. Guess not.

Oh and I've installed perlgcc, RCS, diff, GNU patches..etc but there were problems installing CGI::Session (Makefile Problem) and HTML::Parser (Perl version 5.006 required).

Right now I can't even configure anything..please excuse my disorganised rambling. I'm quite close to a panic attack after a week on this and still way far from a trial twiki run.

Please help!! Thanks in advance!

Tracy

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-- TWikiGuest - 18 Oct 2006

Answer

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Just to clear it up, the Login Manager option was from the ApacheConfigGenerator? .

-- TWikiGuest - 18 Oct 2006

Tracy, it looks that your Apache is configured to require a valid-user for the configure script, possibly looking for the user in wiki/data/.htpasswd. Since you could not register yet it can't authentciate you.

To get started, temporarily remove configure from require valid-user. Once you have TWiki configured properly and you have created your own user account you can put the configure script back under authentication. Don't forget, or this would be a security hole.

-- PeterThoeny - 19 Oct 2006