Question

We have installed the Twiki on Windows 2000 and the installation is fine. But when we try to create a new user, we get the following error "Can't locate Digest/SHA1.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../lib . /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/cygwin-multi-64int /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/cygwin-multi-64int /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl) at c:\twiki\bin\register line 35."

We have done the Cygwin installation as per the WindowsInstallCookbook. Since the cpan installation was failing initially, we then tried setting "$ export FTP_Passive=1" and the cpan installation seems to be have gone fine. When we tried installing NET::SMTP, Digest::SHA1 and MIME::Base 64 the message install ok was displayed.

We searched for "AskedQuestions" in this site and tried putting the dump provided by RichardDonkin (Digest-files.tar.gz). But this did not help too.

We have tried installing cygwin from scratch a number of times..but no luck.

Please suggest what to do at the earliest. We are really stuck.

Thanks,

Umashankar

• TWiki version: TWiki20030201
• Perl version: v5.8.0
• Web server & version: Apache 1.3.27
• Server OS: Windows 2000
• Web browser & version: IE 6.0
• Client OS: Windows 2000

-- SampturUmashankar - 22 May 2003

Answer

Your problem might be related to the Perl version. I don't know any details but it has been said that TWiki has problems with Perl v5.8.0, see CairoRelease and KnownIssuesOfTWiki01Feb2003 and IssuesWithPerl5dot8.

If possible, you should try with Perl version 5.6.1 which is known to work perfectly with TWiki.

-- TorbenGB - 23 May 2003

Or it might be because you have relative path for the TWiki libs? Check your twiki/bin/setlib.cfg setting, set it to absolute path.

-- PeterThoeny - 24 May 2003

I did a reinstall of these packages - Net::SMTP, Digest::SHA1 and MIME:Base64. After doing this it started working fine. It took some effort to do the mail configuration. But I found the answers for these from the Answered questions.

Now the Twiki Installation on windows is working fine.

Thanks to both of you TorbenGB and PeterThoeny. Thanks very much.

Regards,

Umashankar

-- SampturUmashankar - 26 May 2003