SID-01629: Can't run configure script

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Can't do the first step of installation, running configure. Just popped up as a text file. Then I followed a bunch of fixing steps listed on this site and am now getting this error:

-- Could not load CGI::Carp. Please install this module before continuing. It can be downloaded from http://www.cpan.org

The error seen was: Can't locate CGI/Carp.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/local/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl) at (eval 1) line 2. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 2. --

Seriously doubt this is the problem, but I'm downloading carp now. Any other ideas?

-- David Tannenbaum - 2013-01-23

Discussion and Answer

This is an apache configuration issue. Your twiki/bin is configures as a html doc directory instead of a script directory. Use the ApacheConfigGenerator.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-03-05

Hi Peter

I had the same problem and used the web tool ApacheConfigGenerator. I get the following error in the apache error log. can you please give me nail me the exact issue and solution.

[Thu Jun 06 15:18:38 2013] [error] [client 192.168.0.175] access to /bin/configure failed, reason: require directives present and no Authoritative handler., referer: http://192.168.0.175:8001/ [Thu Jun 06 15:18:38 2013] [error] [client 192.168.0.175] Can't locate CGI/Carp.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl) at /srv/www/hsenidtwiki.com/twiki/bin/register line 28., referer: http://192.168.0.175:8001/ [Thu Jun 06 15:18:38 2013] [error] [client 192.168.0.175] BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /srv/www/hsenidtwiki.com/twiki/bin/register line 28., referer: http://192.168.0.175:8001/ [Thu Jun 06 15:18:38 2013] [error] [client 192.168.0.175] Premature end of script headers: register, referer: http://192.168.0.175:8001/

This is my httpd.conf

# Autogenerated httpd.conf file for TWiki. # Generated at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/ApacheConfigGenerator

# IMPORTANT NOTE: Make sure to enable mod_cgi in the primary apache configuration file.

# We set an environment variable called blockAccess. # # Setting a BrowserMatchNoCase to ^$ is important. It prevents TWiki from # including its own topics as URLs and also prevents other TWikis from # doing the same. This is important to prevent the most obvious # Denial of Service attacks. # # You can expand this by adding more BrowserMatchNoCase statements to # block evil browser agents trying the impossible task of mirroring a twiki # # Example: # BrowserMatchNoCase ^SiteSucker blockAccess # BrowserMatchNoCase ^$ blockAccess

BrowserMatchNoCase ^$ blockAccess

<IfModule mod_perl.c> # Mod_perl preloading PerlSwitches -T </IfModule>

# The ScriptAlias defines the bin directory as a directory where CGI # scripts are allowed. # The first parameter will be part of the URL to your installation e.g. # http://example.com/do/view/... # The second parameter must point to the physical path on your disc. ScriptAlias /srv/www/hsenidtwiki.com/twiki/bin "/srv/www/hsenidtwiki.com/twiki/bin"

# The Alias defines a url that points to the twiki pub directory, which # is the root of file attachments. Alias /srv/www/hsenidtwiki.com/twiki/pub "/srv/www/hsenidtwiki.com/twiki/pub"

# This specifies the options on the TWiki scripts directory. The ExecCGI # and SetHandler tell apache that it contains scripts. "Require all granted" # lets any IP address access this URL. <Directory "/srv/www/hsenidtwiki.com/twiki/bin"> AllowOverride None Require all granted Deny from env=blockAccess

Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks SetHandler cgi-script

# Password file for TWiki users AuthUserFile /srv/www/hsenidtwiki.com/twiki/data/.htpasswd AuthName 'Enter your WikiName: (First name and last name, no space, no dots, capitalized, e.g. JohnSmith)' AuthType Basic

# File to return on access control error (e.g. wrong password) ErrorDocument 401 /srv/www/hsenidtwiki.com/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiRegistration

</Directory>

# This sets the options on the pub directory, which contains attachments and # other files like CSS stylesheets and icons. AllowOverride None stops a # user installing a .htaccess file that overrides these options. # Note that files in pub are not protected by TWiki Access Controls, # so if you want to control access to files attached to topics you need to # block access to the specific directories same way as the ApacheConfigGenerator # blocks access to the pub directory of the Trash web <Directory "/srv/www/hsenidtwiki.com/twiki/pub"> Options None AllowOverride None Require all granted Deny from env=blockAccess

# This line will redefine the mime type for the most common types of scripts AddType text/plain .shtml .php .php3 .phtml .phtm .pl .py .cgi

#add an Expires header that is sufficiently in the future that the browser does not even ask if its uptodate # reducing the load on the server significantly #IF you can, you should enable this - it will improve your twiki experience, even if you set it to under one day. # you may need to enable expires_module in your main apache config expires_module libexec/httpd/mod_expires.so mod_expires.c #<ifmodule mod_expires.c> # <filesmatch "\.(jpg|gif|png|css|js)$"> # ExpiresActive on # ExpiresDefault "access plus 11 days" # </filesmatch> #</ifmodule>

</Directory>

-- Saenthan Sae - 2013-06-06

Please follow the installation instructions and install the dependencies. "Can't locate CGI/Carp.pm in @INC" is an indication that you miss CPAN:CGI::Carp.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-06-06

I found a fix for this which is not mentioned in the install instructions, as far as I can tell. It worked for me. I am running on Ubuntu Server 14.04.2 LTS

sudo a2enmod cgi sudo service apache2 restart

-- Neil Roberts - 2015-07-28

Just for clarification. That should be on either two lines or with a ; in between. Eg, sudo a2enmod cgi ; sudo service apache2 restart

-- Neil Roberts - 2015-07-28

A new extension is now available that should address the CGI issue: CgiContrib - for background see AddCGIpmToTWikiCore.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-10-28

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