HOWTO Install TWiki on Gentoo Linux

5.04.2006

For a study project of my wife I wanted to install TWiki and picked the ebuild. Installing wasn't that fluid, the bin/configure script was displayed as plain text.

But it's marked ~x86 so why blame the maintainer?

These are the steps which were required to get TWiki running for my setup.

edit bin/.htaccess to contain

Options +ExecCGI
SetHandler cgi-script

This made the configure script display. It complained about

Error: 'TWiki.pm' could not be loaded. The error was:

Can't locate TWiki.pm in @INC
(@INC contains: [...]

Error: Check path to twiki/lib and check that LocalSite.cfg is present and readable

Right. TWiki.pm was not readable by the webserver.

# la lib/TWiki.pm
-r--r----- 1 root root 112223 5. Apr 10:35 lib/TWiki.pm

So I chowned all files to the webserver:

# chown -R root:apache ./

configure also mentioned that it could not write the logfiles, so I gave the webserver write permissios to the data dir

find ./data | xargs chmod g+w

It's working

That's it pretty much. TWiki is now running here.