Question

Hi, I am new to Twiki, during installation I looked the bin/testenv page it had couple of warnings like "Security issue: This directory should not be writable by the system user" , reading previous questions from the group i realized that this is not a major problem. But when i click on get started i get the following error.

Software error:
Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at ../lib/TWiki/Search.pm line 290.

The log file in apache says

c:\twiki\bin\view: Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at ../lib/TWiki/Search.pm line 290.

Environment

-- BalajiRajagopalan 10 Sep 2003

Answer

Hi Balaji, thanks for the error log output.

Please provide the information requested in SupportGuidelines, particularly testenv output and TWiki.cfg file. This may be a problem with your $safeEnvPath setting in TWiki.cfg, or permissions, and is due to Perl's TaintChecking - run perldoc perlsec to read more about this.

InsecureDirectory, AnotherInsecureDirectory and InsecureDirectoryinENVPATH are all quite similar, so you may want to try the permissions fixes mentioned in there.

-- RichardDonkin - 10 Sep 2003

I had exactly the same problems as Balaji on a machine with W2K-server installed. I was able to fix it with changes on permissions of the "c:/cygwin" folder Matt Wilkie mentioned on 29 Jun 2003 in InsecureDirectory (r1.12 bottom)

-- AlexanderCatharin - 23 Sep 2003

Same problem, same fix. I got a lot of messages that in some /cygwin subdirectories I did not have permission. But it worked anyway.

-- BramVanOosterhout - 23 Oct 2003

I don't have time to do much right now, but if someone feels like updating WindowsInstallCookbook since this fix seems somewhat tested, go ahead! Please include a reference to the warning at end of AnotherInsecureDirectory though, as it seems the fix needs re-doing periodically (another good argument for Linux ...)

-- RichardDonkin - 05 Nov 2003