SID-00916: Run Twiki on hosted server

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I uploaded Twiki 5 to my web-space of my provider (Strato), who seams to support all requirements.

I am able to open the index-page "Welcome to Twiki". No I do not find a way to get further. If I open the link "Configure TWiki", I get an long text-file only, no html-page. I tried to read the installation guide for hours but did not find the way to get to the next Page. There is somewhere on the Twiki.org-Site a posting of someome who hosted Twiki on Strato, but it is from 2005 and I understand nothing.

-- SebastianFunk - 2010-07-29

Discussion and Answer

This means that the TWiki bin directory is configured to serve HTML documents. Make sure to configure that directory to be a CGI-enabled directory. If on Apache webserver you can add a .htaccess file in that directory if your provider supports that.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-07-29

Thank you for your answer. My directory which is named twiki an which I can acces via URL looks like this:

TWiki

AUTHORS

bin

COPYING

COPYRIGHT

data

data/_default

data/_empty

data/Main

data/mime.types

data/Sandbox

data/Trash

data/TWiki

index.html

INSTALL.html

lib

LICENSE

locale

pub

pub/_default

pub/.htaccess.txt

pub/Main

pub/Sandbox

pub/Trash

pub/TWiki

pub-htaccess.txt

readme.txt

robots.txt

root-htaccess.txt

subdir-htaccess.txt

templates

tools

twiki_httpd_conf.txt TWikiHistory.html

TWikiReleaseNotes05x00.html

TWikiUpgradeGuide.html

working

So I created the .htaccess using the the template what was included in the root level of the distribution entitled pub-htaccess.txt as I read in TWikiInstallationGuide

But there is no change.

-- SebastianFunk - 2010-07-29

Ok, I try from another side:

1. The server of my provider has the following properties: Apache 2.0, SSH, Perl

2. I am using Mac OS X 10.5, downloaded Twiki on my computer, unzipped it, and uploaded the whole file with cyberduck. So I got the same directories on the server as I have it on my local computer. With cyberduck I could set the permissions of the pup-folder as it is described in the documentation.

3. Then I tried to create the ".htaccess"-file but had no other application then TextEdit for that. I did not found an explication anywhere, which application is needed for that and which extension the file has to have. And I do not know which content the file should have.

4. I created the configure-file with the browser-service here on Twiki-org. But I do not know where I should paste the content.

5. I assume the Twiki.org website is a Twiki. Since I worked on Wikipedia for years I am wondering why Editing here seams to be so different.

-- SebastianFunk - 2010-07-30

Hm it would help if someone could tell me, how ti create an .htaccess-file. That would fill the gap between my knowledge an the documentation.

-- SebastianFunk - 2010-08-10

Closing this question after more than 30 days of inactivity. Feel free to reopen if needed. Consider engaging one of the TWiki consultants if you need timely help. We invite you to get involved with the community, it is more likely you get community support if you support the open source project!

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-10-06

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