Question

Hi there,

I've just made a fresh install of TWiki 4.2. Everything works fine except I cannot get the 'Find More Extensions' feature to work from inside Configure.

When I use it I get this error:

Error accessing TWiki.org: Can't connect to twiki.org:80 (connect: timeout)

I'm on a a corporate intranet. Public intranet is accessed via a proxy server. (no authentication). I'm assuming the problem is it is not using the proxy.

From what I understand TWiki is using Perl's LWP package which means it should pick up the http_proxy variable from the environment. Is this correct?

Since I use mod_perl I've put the following into the Apache config:

PerlSetEnv HTTP_PROXY http://myproxy:24800/
PerlSetEnv http_proxy http://myproxy:24800/

I've put in both as there is some confusion in the docs I read which one LWP would use.

Anyway the above does not help.

I can do wget from the server host with no problems using the same user account that Apache runs under. So I know my basic connectivity is ok.

Do you have any ideas on what may be the problem?

How can I debug my problem?

Environment

-- LarsHaarber - 25 Jun 2008

Answer

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Check {PROXY}{HOST} and {PROXY}{PORT} parameters in Mail and proxies section of configure (clic on the Yes, I have read the documentation button before)

-- EnriqueCadalso - 27 Jun 2008

Thanks. How did I miss that one? Did the trick. Problem solved.

-- LarsHaarber - 27 Jun 2008