SID-01408: Web page after install still shows Welcome to Twiki

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.1	Perl version:	5.10.1
Category:	CategoryInstallation	Server OS:	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS	Last update:	14 years ago

I've installed twiki using the install guidelines, and was greeted with the install screen:

Welcome to TWiki

• README LICENSE
• Installation Guide
• Configure TWiki
• TWiki Upgrade Guide
• TWiki-5.0 Release Notes

Note

These pages do not need to be accessible by browsers. Preventing access will increase security and will not affect TWiki in any way.:

I ran "Configure Twiki" from the above screen, and it seems to be configured and working, however when I enter the URL for the twiki site either from localhost or from another pc on the network, I still get the above "Welcome to Twiki" web screen, instead of my front page screen (main).

Apache is set with multiple IP addresses, each pointing to different web sites. I'm new to CMS software so put mediawiki, drupal, joomla, wordpress and twiki all on the same server to check them out, and this is all running on a local Ubuntu PC on an intranet. They all appear to be working properly, each on a different IP address, except Twiki still gets me to the 'Welcome to Twiki' screen. I have to choose "Configure Twiki" and then "Browse to the Twiki Home" to actually get to my Twiki front page, so I'm sure I'm missing something in the configuration settings.

The IP address in Apache 'sites' configuraion has 192.168.0.200 pointing to /webs/twiki which is where twiki software package is installed, and the configuration script ran from there just fine. I did run the "TwikiConfigurationGenerator" for apache, and have that included in the Apache configuration.

My front page seems to be located at 192.168.0.200/bin/view and also at 192.168.0.200/bin/view/Main/WebHome.

I did try changing {DefaultUrlHost} using "Configure Twiki" from http://192.168.0.200 to http://192.168.0.200/bin/view and also to http://192.168.0.200/bin/view/Main/WebHome but still get the "Welcome to Twiki" screen instead of my front page.

Any help appreciated. I hope this is enough detail.

-- CharlesDemosthenes - 2012-02-20

Discussion and Answer

Something is wrong with the apache configuration for TWiki. As indicated with the note, "These pages do not need to be accessible by browsers. Preventing access will increase security and will not affect TWiki in any way".

I suggest to re-run the ApacheConfigGenerator. Also, make sure your TWiki is not located in a directory that is configured by Apache as an HTML document root.

As for redirect to the TWiki home (URL ending in .../view/Main/WebHome), do one of these options:

• Create an Apache rewrite rule to point your domain home to the TWiki homepage.
• Create an index.html file in your apache document root that has a redirect meta tag to load your TWiki homepage.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-02-23

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