Nearing the End

The archive file is weird. Gzipped twice apparently. And unloads all the files in the current directory. This is so unusual. I'm only trying to install twiki because of a friend's recommendation.

$ tar tvfz  TWiki-4.0.4.tgz | head
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
$ gzip -d < TWiki-4.0.4.tgz > junk
$ file junk
junk: gzip compressed data, from Unix
$ mv junk TWiki-4.0.4.tgz
$ tar tvfz  TWiki-4.0.4.tgz | head
-r--r----- apache/apache  6110 2006-06-25 12:19:09 AUTHORS
drwxr-xr-x apache/apache     0 2006-06-25 12:19:20 bin/
-r--r----- apache/apache  4162 2006-06-25 12:19:11 bin/.htaccess.txt
-r-xr-x--- apache/apache  1055 2006-06-25 12:19:09 bin/upload
-r-xr-x--- apache/apache  1051 2006-06-25 12:19:09 bin/rdiff
-r-xr-x--- apache/apache  1042 2006-06-25 12:19:09 bin/rest
-r-xr-x--- apache/apache  1059 2006-06-25 12:19:09 bin/changes
-r-xr-x--- apache/apache  1051 2006-06-25 12:19:20 bin/rdiffauth
-r-xr-x--- apache/apache  1077 2006-06-25 12:19:20 bin/viewauth
-r-xr-x--- apache/apache 124304 2006-06-25 12:19:09 bin/configure
$

Install is a nightmare. Best to hire a consultant. The following notes won't help.

$ mkdir  twiki
$ cd  twiki
$ tar xfz ../TWiki-4.0.4.tgz
$ cd ..

# Don't follow instructions and change file ownership yet.  
# There's still stuff to edit.

$ ls twiki/bin/LocalLib.cfg
ls: twiki/bin/LocalLib.cfg: No such file or directory
$ cp twiki/bin/LocalLib.cfg.txt twiki/bin/LocalLib.cfg
$

$ vi twiki/bin/LocalLib.cfg
# Edit twikiLibPath, set to /home/mudd/pkgs/twiki/lib/
# The file is read-only by default?!?!




Tried: http://localhost/twiki/bin/configure

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /twiki/bin/configure on this server.



$ ls -l /var/www/twiki/bin/configure
-r-xr-x--- 1 www-data mudd 124304 2006-06-25 12:19 /var/www/twiki/bin/configure
$


$ chmod u+w  twiki/twiki_httpd_conf.txt
$ vi twiki/twiki_httpd_conf.txt


$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Password:
 * Forcing reload of apache 2.0 web server... Syntax error on line 68 of /home/mudd/pkgs/twiki/twiki_httpd_conf.txt:
Invalid command 'php_admin_flag', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
                                                                         [fail]
$


$ sudo cpan
> install CGI::Session


Notes on Security

    * If you don't set a password, or the password is cracked, then configure could be used to do very nasty things to your server.
    * If you are running TWiki on a public website, you are strongly advised to disable saving from configure by making lib/LocalSite.cfg readonly once you are happy with your configuration.

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