Question

I recently downloaded the VM-Ware appliance bundled with twiki using debian as the O/S. TWiki works fine out of the box, thing is when I try to install a plugin I get Warnings telling me that "permissions cannot be set" by the perl install script. I figure out it was a permission issue, but after checking the perl installer I realized that the permission setted by perl shouldn't prevent the usage of plugins since they only apply to the pub/ and data/ directories.

The plugins do appear in the configure page (twiki/bin/configure) and I can enable them but I won't get list in InstelledPlugins and every function they use won't work ex:

is not parsed same for the other plugins.

One plugin do kind of work. The TopicVarPlugin works for simple var like * Set THIS = this. I can use those, but then it triggers an error when I try to edit any page, an error related to TopicVarPlugin.

I'm completly stuck and honnestly don't know what to try next in order to make my plugins work. Any input?

TIA

-- MarcBoivin - 01 Aug 2006

Environment

-- MarcBoivin - 01 Aug 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

This could very well be a problem related to the VM running SpeedyCGI. Issue a killall speedy_backend as root or reboot the machine to have new configuration installed.

You will find some comments regarding this an other useful hints in TWikiVMComments.

-- SteffenPoulsen - 01 Aug 2006