Bug: 404 error with Beta 03 Aug 2001 on Windows

Unable to access any page beyond http://myserver.com/twiki010803/bin/view.pl (typical link - not actual). Generated urls seem to be missing ".txt" extension. I have carefully reviewed my .cfg .htaccess httpd.conf etc. files and am unable to isolate anything that could cause this. I even diffed the old (beta 20010720) and this twiki.pm to see what I could see. As far as I can see, the logic to generate a file extension is the same.

A generated link looks like: http://myserver.com/twiki010803/bin/view.pl/Main/TWikiUsers

Actual file is located in: /apache/twiki010803/data/Main/TWikiUsers.txt

Exerpt from twiki.cfg:

# variables that need to be changed when installing on a new server:
# ==================================================================
#                   %WIKIHOMEURL% : link of TWiki icon in upper left corner :
$wikiHomeUrl      = "http://myserver.com/twiki010803/";
#                   Host of TWiki URL :    (Example "http://myhost.com:123")
$defaultUrlHost   = "http://myserver.com/";
#                   %SCRIPTURLPATH% : cgi-bin path of TWiki URL:
$scriptUrlPath    = "/twiki010803/bin";
#                   %PUBURLPATH% : Public data path of TWiki URL (root of attachments) :
$pubUrlPath       = "/twiki010803/pub";
#                   Public data directory, must match $pubUrlPath :
$pubDir           = "k:/apache/twiki010803/pub";
#                   Template directory :
$templateDir      = "k:/apache/twiki010803/templates";
#                   Data (topic files) root directory :
$dataDir          = "k:/apache/twiki010803/data";

This is a fresh install into a new directory.

Update:

I reverted back to beta20010720 and it works just fine. Generated URLs don't have file extensions, so that's a false lead. They look the same as in the newer one. Now I have no idea why, it's just not working. Click on a link, get a 404 error generated by the server.

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-- DavidLeBlanc - 05 Aug 2001

On my system (Debian Linux, Apache) the 20010803beta is working fine, AFAIK
Therefore the problem is not general.

Since you get a 404 there is a access problem for the server, he cannot find something. Probably you should check if you used the same directory names for the location of TWiki and for the server configuration.

-- HubertWeikert - 05 Aug 2001

Because it does not happen on Linux does not mean it's not a general problem for Windows OS users. Since i've gotten in working by using the name it expects, I don't know precisely what the problem might be, if there is one at all.

I deleted and reinstalled as k:/apache/twiki after renaming previous twiki directory tree to twikiold. I copied over the .htaccess and twiki.cfg files after verifying that the distributed versions are the same in the new version and the old. It works now. I wonder if the directory "twiki010803" created a problem internal to twiki or something?

-- DavidLeBlanc - 07 Aug 2001

It looks like it was some kind of configuration problem. One possible problem maker could have been your $defaultUrlHost, it should not have a trailing slash.

My Beta test installation is working fine, also with numbers in the path, http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/b20010803/bin/view/ . Feel free to make tests there.

Thanks for reporting this, better to have it tested in many environments.

-- PeterThoeny - 07 Aug 2001