SID-00007: TWiki as home page

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Category:	CategoryInstallation	Server OS:	Ubuntu	Last update:	17 years ago

I have installed Twiki on a Ubuntu server using apt-get. I am also using Webmin as a gui interface to manage the server and its modules. I have run configure and there are no errors. I have now created a virtual host on my server and would like to make Twiki the home page but seem to be unable to do that. The path that brings up Twiki is http://www.domainname.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/. However, when I enter that path in Apache as document directory or server route, it won't accept that path because it says there is no such directory. Any help would be appreciated.

-- ArthurDyck - 03 Jan 2009

Discussion and Answer

You need to distinguish between a URL path (/cgi-bin/twiki/) and a file system path (/var/twiki/bin). Also, you can't configure Apache to use the TWiki view script as the document root, but you can either add a rewrite rule or a redirect to point your document root to the TWiki home.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Jan 2009

So I've added a document directory alias from /var/www/ to /cgi-bin/twiki/view/ but it doesn't seem to be making any difference. I'll keep trying different things in terms of redirects and aliases and see if I can get it going.

-- ArthurDyck - 03 Jan 2009

The easiest is to add a small index.html page to /var/www that has a redirect to your TWiki homepage. Example redirect in HTML header:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/WebHome">

-- PeterThoeny - 04 Jan 2009

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