Question

Hey folks, I got everything installed and it's working except for trying to set the Site variables. Specifically here... Edit the TWikiPreferences topic in the TWiki web (by pointing your browser to http://yourdomain.com/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiPreferences) to set the WIKIWEBMASTER email address, and other email settings required for registration and WebChangesAlert to work:

Problem is when I point my browser here, I am a TWikiGuest (No surprise there) but the problem is that I can see no place to login. How do I login in as an admin?

I thought I might need to register as a new user and I tried but I got the error: Send Mail Error The e-mail could not be delivered. Please notify your TWiki administrator, webmaster@your.company ERROR: Can't send mail using Net::SMTP (can't connect to 'mail')

Although I have sendmail specified in the .cfg file I still have to make these changes in the Twiki:Twiki Preferences right? There's my catch 22 because I can't log in to it.

Environment

TWiki version:	20030201
TWiki plugins:
Server OS:	RH9
Web server:	Apache 1.3
Perl version:	5.6
Client OS:	2000
Web Browser:	IE 6

-- TWikiGuest - 31 Oct 2003

Answer

The default TWikiPreferences topic has no access restriction, e.g. the ALLOWTOPICCHANGE setting is empty. That is, you should be able to edit that topic without login. Once your site-level preferences and mail are working you can enable the access restrction.

-- PeterThoeny - 05 Nov 2003

You're probably aware of this, but the error message above indicates that your SMTP mail host is not set correctly on TWikiPreferences - check the main installation docs which follow on from WindowsInstallCookbook for the details.

-- RichardDonkin - 07 Nov 2003