I switched to TigerSkin (as well as GNU Skin) but still like some of the features from the originally skin as the variables WIKIWEBLIST and the template WEB.{ TMPL:P{"webaction"} }. (I removed the % only here.) Therefor I copied those passages from the twiki.tmpl to twiki.tiger.tmpl.

Everything works nice except that the "Go" (with the input field) takes input but does not take any action any more. And I really like this feature. I tried a lot but did not getting it working so far.

Next thing is that it seems as if I can't get the session plugin in the side menu running. I searched the TWiki Support Area but could not find any answers that are exactly answering my problem as described below:

It shows my name if I go the traditional way of logging in by editing a topic, logging in via the login window and the system asking my name. When I then click on my name there, it brings me to my own topic which is as it should work though I would like additionally to choose my skin there.

But if it says login (Session in black and Logon>> in red), I always get prompted for my name and the password and after I entered that I get

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Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [no address given] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log

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This information is probably absolutely right because in the error log it says: Mon Nov 11 15:39:52 2002] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/usr/local/httpd/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiRegistration

which is a real weird path. Probably it comes from a misconfiguration of my apache. Can you help me here?

• TWiki version: Dec 2001 release
• Web server: Apache-1.3.23-73
• Server OS:SuSE Linux ?? with a 2.4.18 kernel
• Web browser: Konqueror, Netscape 7.0
• Client OS: SuSE Linux 8.0 with a 2.4.18 kernel

Why is your site so darned slow answering recently???

-- StefanWolber - 12 Nov 2002

Answer

Hi, this sounds like a PATH_INFO problem, see CobaltRaqInstall and download the latest testenv from CVSget:bin/testenv. This has a specific test for PATH_INFO issues. If that's what it is, you can either apply the patch on CobaltRaqInstall, or upgrade to the latest TWikiBetaRelease, which fixes this problem.

TWiki is hosted on SourceForge at present - unfortunately SF gets very slow at times, due to the load of many other open source projects...

The TWiki version number is at the top of TWikiDocumentation.html when you unzip TWiki, and is also encoded in the name of the ZIP file. You probably have the Dec 2001 release.

Getting skins to work with sessions etc is a bit more advanced, try asking on the relevant plugin or skin page. The easiest way to do skins is to set them globally rather than per user.

-- RichardDonkin - 12 Nov 2002

Hi Richard,

thanks for your answers.

The release date is Dec 2001, at least that's what documentation says.

I attached the outcome from the testenv you recommended. I do not think that it is the CobaltRaqInstall issue as I am able to run most of the scripts. It must be either a PATH problem or a correct user problem. I tried a lot but nothing seems to work.

It says in the error log something about very ugly directory which indicates to me that the document root somewhat collides whith the root for the programs.

-- StefanWolber - 14 Nov 2002

I think it is your Apache setup as well, but I'm not an Apache guru... Maybe try an Apache setup email list/forum? I did notice that in the following, PATH_TRANSLATED seems to be wrong, being based on DOCUMENT_ROOT, so maybe it explains the file path from your error log (thanks for including that), /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/usr/local/httpd/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiRegistration. Have a look for keywords such as PATH_TRANSLATED and scriptalias on Google, as well, I remember reading about this.

PATH_INFO /foo/bar 
PATH_TRANSLATED /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/foo/bar 
REQUEST_METHOD GET 
REQUEST_URI /twiki/bin/testenv/foo/bar 
SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/local/httpd/twiki/bin/testenv 
SCRIPT_NAME /twiki/bin/testenv 

Actually I don't think the above is much help - I have the same variable settings on a TWiki on Linux that works fine.... Probably best to check the actual HTML in View Source and then see how the templates generate it.

-- RichardDonkin - 14 Nov 2002

This doesn't solve your problem, but I've fixed testenv so that it shouldn't produce those 'Software Error' messages on your setup when testing for modules. If you have a minute, download CVSget:bin/testenv and let me know if this fixes that issue.

-- RichardDonkin - 15 Nov 2002