SID-00876: no view directory in bin

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.0	Perl version:	5.008008 (MSWin32)
Category:	CategoryInstallation	Server OS:	Windows NT	Last update:	15 years ago

I've just started to configure my twiki site, and am presented with the link,

To become an administrator you need to first register as a normal user first and then add your wikiname to the TWikiAdminGroup (follow the text in yellow).

Both the register link, and the TWikiAdminGroup link's point to bin/view/... and those pages do not exist.

I have the download, TWiki-5.0.0.zip, and that doesn't have the directory /twiki/bin/view either.

With the help of my tech support, they got it so that I could run the configure.pl page. I ran the configure up through getting all the basic stuff configured, and all warnings / errors resolved. Now I'm trying to follow the next part and register, but there is no page at the link given.

-- ChuckSavage - 2010-06-24

Discussion and Answer

The /view is a script, not a directory. The webserver runs the script, and uses the part after /view to figure out the TWiki web and topic.

Installing TWiki on Windows using IIS is possible but relatively difficult. I suggest to run the VMware distribution of TWiki on WIndows, see TWikiVMDebianStable. This is based on an older TWiki release. For production deployment I recommend using the latest TWiki release 5.0.0, it is rock solid.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-06-24

Well I'm closer now. I changed scriptSuffix to .pl here,

$TWiki::cfg{ScriptSuffix} = '.pl';

And now the page runs, and I register, but the email failed to send, and says you are not registered.

Onwards.

-- ChuckSavage - 2010-06-24

-- ChuckSavage - 2010-06-25

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