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  • TWiki version: Dec 2001
  • Web server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.2b
  • Server OS: Cobalt Raq 3/Linux 2.2
  • Web browser: N/A
  • Client OS: N/A

Downloading and installing TWiki on a Cobalt Raq 3 as an individual user. Set up within my own account: /home/site/home/users/erik/web/twiki/

Testenv passes with flying colors: http://www.valdemar.net/~erik/twiki/bin/testenv.cgi

BUT, view.cgi doesn't work: http://www.valdemar.net/~erik/twiki/bin/view.cgi

Also it looks like the configuration is losing the "~" character... I attach my TWiki.cfg also to help.

Lastly, the instructions for installing within an account are not particularly clear on what I should do to make up for not editing the httpd.conf, e.g. what of that stuff should go into an htaccess file?

Thanks in advance!

-- ErikOliver - 22 Feb 2002

Answer

Hi - the one thing I noticed from your testenv output is that you are running under CGIwrap, a tool that runs your actual CGI script under your userid. It's quite likely that the problem is caused by cgiwrap, which on Cobalt apparently has had some interesting bugs, particularly when using Apache ScriptAlias type commands. The good news is that there's at least one TWiki site running on cgiwrap...

I can't really help directly, but here are some URLs - you might try reading up the troubleshooting info on cgiwrap and also running the debug version of cgiwrap (see the link about the URL for this on Cobalt).

One area to investigate is whether the view script is getting the environment and parameters you think it is, though perhaps the problem happens before that. If you can copy the view script into view2 and edit the code a bit to print out exactly what parameters are being passed (to the debug log), that may help. Uncomment the body of writedebug and writedebugTimes to do this, and put in extra print statements to see all the variables that the first 10 lines of view uses - some are probably getting messed up.

Also, try copying some of the code from testenv into view, e.g. the first bit that prints out the environment variables passed with the request.

Most likely the problem is that the call to $query->path_info() early in the main sub of view is passing weird path_info - this is reminiscent of some IIS problems with TWiki, have a look on Codev and Support. Anyway, make sure you print this in the debug logs.

It's very likely that the problem is path_info or something related - e.g. the URL http://www.valdemar.net/~erik/twiki/bin/view.cgi?topic=Main.WebHome works fine, because it doesn't try to do anything with the path_info.

Please also post your Apache config as an attachment here (httpd.conf).

UPDATE: The way TWiki.pm parses the path_info needs to be improved to take account of path_info brokenness (of which Apache and IIS are sometimes guilty - cgiwrap seems to contribute as well).

See the attached patch file for a simpler fix - apply using patch -i path_info.patch from within the lib directory.

-- RichardDonkin - 26 Feb 2002

Thank you Richard! I'm up and running now!


I've attached a much simpler patch, which is now committed to CVS for the TWikiAlphaRelease. I would like to get some wider testing for this, as I suspect there are more extreme cases of PATH_INFO mangling that may need additional work.

-- RichardDonkin - 19 Mar 2002

I own a RAQ4 Sun Cobalt and this patch don't run, but I've download the last TWiki.pm in the TWikiAlphaRelease and it's run fine

-- MarcFaidherbe - 03 Sep 2002

If you are using Perl 5.005, be sure to change [:alnum:] in the patch into A-Za-z0-9. This is fixed in TWikiAlphaRelease.

-- RichardDonkin - 25 Mar 2002

Please don't add new questions to existing pages, particularly when they are set to AnsweredQuestions state - this more or less guarantees that your question will be missed, as happened here, as many people only look at AskedQuestions...

Also, see the SupportGuidelines and provide the information requested there.

-- RichardDonkin - 18 Sep 2002


Category: TWikiPatches
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Texttxt TWiki.txt r1 manage 14.9 K 2002-02-22 - 15:04 UnknownUser  
Unknown file formatpatch path_info.patch r1 manage 1.0 K 2002-03-19 - 19:26 UnknownUser Fix for this and other PATH_INFO mangling
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