SID-00863: New setup - get internal server error after configuring

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.3.2	Perl version:	5.8.9
Category:	CategoryDeployment	Server OS:	Windows Server 2003	Last update:	15 years ago

Hello. I am new to Perl, Cywin, Apache and TWiki but am trying to accomodate a coworker's request to set it up. After a few difficulties I am now able to get into the Configure script. (I initially tried using IIS but disabled it and switched to Apache.) When I finish and click the link to go to the TWiki front page I get a "500 Internal Server Error" message from the browser. The Apache error log has the following lines:

[Wed Jun 09 19:11:52 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 3)The system cannot find the path specified. : couldn't create child process: 720003: view.pl, referer: http://localhost/bin/configure [Wed Jun 09 19:11:52 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 3)The system cannot find the path specified. : couldn't spawn child process: C:/Twiki/bin/view.pl, referer: http://localhost/bin/configure

My online research suggests a Perl problem but I am not sure where to go from here.

I am not sure if this is the issue but I should mention that the Configure script is giving me a warning in the DefaultUrlHost section: "Warning: Current setting does not match HTTP_HOST localhost".

The DebianVM is really cool but our server performs other functions and I'm worried about the memory usage, so I'd like to try this route first...

Thanks.

-- BrianChristopherson - 2010-06-10

Discussion and Answer

I found information about changing the shebang to #!perl for Windows systems (if perl.exe is in your PATH variable). I changed them for all of the .pl files in the bin directory and that seems to have fixed it.

-- BrianChristopherson - 2010-06-12

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