Question

I have installed Twiki on a windows 2000 server machine, running lighttpd 1.4.9, with active perl 5.8.7 and GnuWin32 based core utils + gzip + tar + all that. I am using RCSWrap currently as I’m not able to configure a compiled RCS exe on windows. The RCS part works well, with me being able to save/force new versions, etc.

The problem is when I try to go from ‘twiki/bin/view.pl’ to something like ‘twiki/bin/view.pl/Main/TwikiUsers’, I get an error that says: “Warning: Can't find topic main.WebLeftBar”. Could you please help me track down the problem? I am attaching my Twiki.cfg file here (I was unable to download and run testenv, so can’t send you the output for that, sorry).

I would be extremely grateful if you could help me out or point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance.

PS: Okay so I searched through all the scripts for WebLeftBar, and came to view.pattern.tmpl and replaced Support.WebLeftBar with Main.WebLeftBar and also tried out TWiki06x01.WebLeftBar. These two changes allowed me to see the leftbard, but left certain links broken (such as search and also the Main Web home link. Thus one thing I realised that when the error says "Can't find topic main.WebLeftBar", the "m" being lowercase is one part of the problem.. or so it seems to me. Can someone please help me?

Environment

-- HemanshuNarsana - 20 Feb 2006

Answer

• TWiki.cfg: My configuration file.

• LocalSite.cfg: This is the localised configuration (including directory paths, etc)

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The lowercase 'm' might be a problem. I'm guessing that somehow your server is lowercasing the 'm' in the path_info. I say might because it's a Windows server, and Windows ought to see 'main' and 'Main' as equivalent. It's possible that there is a case-sensitivity in the "webExists" code in TWiki that is failing because of this, however.

I strongly suspect your webser is at fault, and is munging the path_info.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 12 Mar 2006