SID-01159: Broken Twiki installation

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.1	Perl version:	5.008008 (linux)
Category:	CategoryInstallation	Server OS:	Linux 2.6.18-194.11.4.el5 (x86_64-linux-thread-multi)	Last update:	15 years ago

I asked my (shared) hosting provider about installing twiki and they said they'd do it for me. Thing is, I feel they did something wrong. If you go to my twiki installation you'd see that there are missing image files, the text is scattered about. It's better if you see:

What went wrong? Do I still need to do something? I also can't edit anything because, as I hit "Save" (or anything else, for that matter), I get this error: "lscgid: execve():/home/usr/public_html/twiki/bin/save: Not a directory" where "usr" is where my username on the server would be (I suppose my directory on the shared hosting).

StableHost, my provider, say they use LiteSpeed. Could this be the problem?

I hope I'm not asking something that will get anyone angry or annoyed, but I'm at a loss and I would like to fix this as soon as I can. I thank anyone for even trying.

-- FelixGarcia - 2011-05-03

Discussion and Answer

Hello. It seems a problem with the path to pub folder. Check in the configure script (in http://yourtwikiaddress/bin/configure the secction where the path are declared. See if they make any sense with your file system paths.

You can right click in any image holder (where the image is supposed to be) and select properties. There the path to the image that is not shown should appear. It can give you clues about what's going on wrong.

-- EnriqueCadalso - 2011-05-04

If the configuration is OK, check the permissions of the pub directories and files. They need to be readable/modifiable by the webserver user.

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-05-07

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-- PeterThoeny - 2011-06-16

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