Question

I have been trying for weeks to install twiki on sourceforge but have been continuously failing. Before giving up, I thought I'd try the support forum here (sourceforge support folks don't seem to know). I did look at the other topics about sourceforge, but that didn't help either.

The deployment is at http://dance.sourceforge.net.

The links show a ? - and are not "realized" links. However, clicking on them does show the data to be present.

testenv is at http://dance.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/testenv I couldn't figure out why it says the directory was not writable by nobody - I've checked that it is writable. Here's the listing of htdocs:

somik@sc8-pr-shell1:/home/groups/d/da/dance/htdocs$ ls -l
total 1796
-rw-r--r--    1 somik    dance     1265907 Feb  1  2003 TWiki20030201.zip
-rw-rw-r--    1 somik    dance      453477 Feb  1  2003 TWikiDocumentation.html
-rw-rw-r--    1 somik    dance       52417 Feb  1  2003 TWikiHistory.html
drwxrwxr-x    8 nobody   dance        4096 Feb  1  2003 data
-rw-rw-r--    1 somik    dance         784 Jul 11 23:12 index.html
drwxrwxr-x    4 somik    dance        4096 Aug  3 19:29 lib
-rw-rw-r--    1 somik    dance       19440 Feb  1  2003 license.txt
drwxrwxr-x    8 nobody   dance        4096 Jul 11 00:08 pub
-rw-rw-r--    1 somik    dance        4334 Feb  1  2003 readme.txt
drwxrwxr-x    2 somik    dance        4096 Jul 16 20:23 templates
somik@sc8-pr-shell1:/home/groups/d/da/dance/htdocs$ 

Here's the listing of pub:

somik@sc8-pr-shell1:/home/groups/d/da/dance/htdocs/pub$ ls -l
total 32
drwxr-xr-x    3 nobody   dance        4096 Nov 18  2002 Know
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   dance        4096 Apr  7  2002 Main
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   dance        4096 Apr 20  2002 Sandbox
drwxr-xr-x    9 nobody   dance        4096 Jul 16 20:22 TWiki
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   dance        4096 Dec  3  2001 Trash
-rwxr-xr-x    1 nobody   dance        1078 Jan 14  2000 favicon.ico
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   dance        4096 Jul 11 00:08 icn
-rwxr-xr-x    1 nobody   dance        2877 Jun  7  1999 wikiHome.gif

Here's the listing of data:

somik@sc8-pr-shell1:/home/groups/d/da/dance/htdocs/data$ ls -l
total 36
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   dance        4096 Jan 30  2003 Know
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   dance        4096 Jul 24 07:02 Main
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   dance        4096 Feb  1  2003 Sandbox
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   dance       12288 Jul 16 20:24 TWiki
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   dance        4096 Feb  1  2003 Trash
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   dance        4096 Jan 30  2003 _default
-rwxr-xr-x    1 nobody   dance           0 Feb  1  2003 debug.txt
-rwxr-xr-x    1 nobody   dance        3419 Aug 13  2001 mime.types
-rwxr-xr-x    1 nobody   dance           0 Feb  1  2003 warning.txt
somik@sc8-pr-shell1:/home/groups/d/da/dance/htdocs/data$ 

The permissions of data and pub are set to owner nobody and group dance (my project group). nobody also has write permissions to these two directories(recursive).

I'd be grateful for any advice.

Environment

TWiki version:	TWikiRelease01Feb2003
TWiki plugins:	DefaultPlugin, EmptyPlugin, InterwikiPlugin
Server OS:	Linux
Web server:	Apache
Perl version:	5.6.1
Client OS:	Windoze
Web Browser:	IE

-- SomikRaha - 04 Aug 2003

Answer

As a start, and in case you have not seen, please read TWikiOnSourceForge.

For security reasons I do not recommend to put the template and data dirs below htdocs. Create a twiki dir below your project root and move those dirs there. Also, you need to specify an absolute path to those two dirs. Fixes in TWiki.cfg in this case:

$wikiHomeUrl = "http://dance.sourceforge.net/";
$templateDir = "/home/groups/d/da/dance/twiki/templates";
$dataDir = "/home/groups/d/da/dance/twiki/data";

-- PeterThoeny - 04 Aug 2003

I tried your recommendation. However, although I am able to see the wiki, I am unable to edit and save stuff. Pls note, I had requested sourceforge support to change ownership of data and pub to nobody recursively (which they did).

Here's my current directory structure under /home/groups/d/da/dance/twiki:

somik@sc8-pr-shell1:/home/groups/d/da/dance/twiki$ ls -l
total 8
drwxrwxr-x    8 nobody   dance        4096 Feb  1  2003 data
drwxrwxr-x    2 somik    dance        4096 Jul 16 20:23 templates

When I try to save a topic, I get:

Topic save error

During save of file Main.WebHome an error was found by the 
version control system. Please notify your TWiki
administrator.

/usr/bin/ci -q -l -m'none' -t-none -w'guest' /home/groups/d/da/dance/twiki/data/Main/WebHome.txt 2>&1
ci: /home/groups/d/da/dance/twiki/data/Main/WebHome.txt,v: Permission denied


Go back in your browser and save your changes locally. 

Upon asking sourceforge support, they said it was bcos I asked them to give me nobody ownership. Apparently nobody can't run ci. When I took a peek at the file, here are the file perms:

somik@sc8-pr-shell1:/home/groups/d/da/dance/twiki/data$ ls -l Main/WebHome.txt,v
-rwxr-xr-x    1 nobody   dance       11862 Feb  1  2003 Main/WebHome.txt,v
somik@sc8-pr-shell1:/home/groups/d/da/dance/twiki/data$

I can see that this file does not have group write permissions. I tried writing perl scripts that would attempt to do this, but that didn't work (neither did your script on the link you posted above). I couldn't see the dummy1 or dummy2 directories being created under data (for that matter, the use wiki statement didn't work. I had to provide an absolute path for dataDir)

At this point, I am not sure what to do... Thanks a lot!

-- SomikRaha - 04 Aug 2003

I do not understand the NFS setup at SF, but this is how it looks like: The web server has cgi user nobody as reported by the testenv script. However, from the ssh shell login, it is nfsnobod. Here is a sample file from TWiki.org:

drwxrwxr-x    2 nfsnobod twiki      159744 Aug 10 00:34 .
-rw-r--r--    1 nfsnobod twiki        7674 Aug  7 13:53 WebHome.txt
-r--r--r--    1 nfsnobod nfsnobod   658943 Aug  7 13:53 WebHome.txt,v

So, ask SF support to set your TWiki files to be owned by user nfsnobod as seen from the shell. Please let us know if that worked, or better yet, update the TWikiOnSourceForge topic.

Also, see if you can create a new topic.

-- PeterThoeny - 10 Aug 2003