SID-01822: HTTP 404 Error upon Login but logged in successfully

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.4	Perl version:	5.10.0
Category:	CategoryError	Server OS:	Windows XP Professional 32bit - SP3	Last update:	10 years ago

For testing purposes, I installed Twiki onto a Win7 machine running XAMPP. It was a local workstation. I then ported it over to a virtual server (outlined in table). After some struggling, I managed to get Twiki to work on IIS.

The issue: User enters site > clicks Login > Enters login name and password > Receives HTTP 404 File Not Found (http://x140/twiki/bin/login.pl/Main/WebHome)

If the user manually navigates to any part of the site after login 404 error, they are successfully logged in and everything functions as normal.

IIS security is set to Anonymous Access and folder permissions are set accordingly.

-- Steve Shaffer - 2013-11-12

Discussion and Answer

I am not familiar with IIS. Pure guess: Does IIS recognize login.pl as a script in http://x140/twiki/bin/login.pl/Main/WebHome ? If IIS is not aware of the path info (/Main/WebHome), it may look for file WebHome, hence producing the 404 error.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-11-12

IIS doesn't have a problem with http://x140/twiki/bin/view.pl/Main/WebHome (note view.pl). Does login.pl/Main/Webhome actually render the page or does it serve as a redirect back to view.pl?

*UPDATE: I answered this myself by going back to the XAMPP installation. Login.pl redirects back to view.pl.*

Being unfamiliar with the Twiki engine, which .pm file would contain the redirect for login.pl?

BTW, thank you for the quick response!

-- Steve Shaffer - 2013-11-12

In any case, it might be better to run TWiki in a VM on Windows, it performs better than a native install on Windows. You can DownloadTWikiVM.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-11-12

Look into the login managers located in lib/TWiki/LoginManager

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-11-12

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