Question

I have tried everything I could in the support questions/forums/google, but for whatever reason, my Twiki 4.1.2 instance won't run. Using perl 5.8.6, Linux 2.6.11-6mdksmp.

From error_log (happens loading twiki configure URL)

Perl error when reading LocalSite.cfg:

 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /etc/httpd/twiki/lib/TWiki.pm line 454.
Compilation failed in require at /etc/httpd/twiki/lib/TWiki/UI/View.pm line 39.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /etc/httpd/twiki/lib/TWiki/UI/View.pm line 39.
Compilation failed in require at /etc/httpd/twiki/bin/view line 30.
 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /etc/httpd/twiki/bin/view line 30.

Environment

-- Alexandra1Stehman - 12 Jul 2007

Answer

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It sounds like you have a perl error in your LocalSite.cfg. Try this; from the command line,

$ cd lib
$ perl LocalSite.cfg

-- CrawfordCurrie - 13 Jul 2007

See, that is part of the problem, tho' - the twiki distro I dl'ed does not include that file anymore.

-- Alexandra1Stehman - 13 Jul 2007

That file is not part of the distro. It is generated when you first run configure. Check that you followed all steps in the installation instructions.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 14 Jul 2007

presuming that Crawford's pointer helped

-- SvenDowideit - 26 Aug 2007

Yeah, I had this problem two and it was because I tried to use the login script before the configure script but in my defense non of the scripts were working at first because of a problem with the shebang

-- JohnCreighton - 2009-07-20