[Moin-user] moinmoin config issues - couldn't create child process

[Ryan Wilcox]

thanks so much for your help roger, your suggestions @ twistedmatrix worked. it was the moin.cgi mods that i had incorrect, the script alias was fine.

thanks again
ryan

ryan k. wilcox
olenick & associates
phone : 312.214.2577
mobile : 312.404.9148


-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Haase [mailto:crosseyedpenguin at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 10:42 PM
To: moin-user at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Moin-user] moinmoin config issues - couldn't create child process

I wouldn't be confident of the scriptalias being correct because you
can produce a different error message.

I had some problems installing Moin on W/me and documented my
suggestions here near the end:
http://twistedmatrix.com/users/jh.twistd/moin/moin.cgi/HelpErrata

However, I don't recall having an error message like yours. Is your
failing url:
http://127.0.0.1/mywiki/
or, based on your second test:
http://127.0.0.1/ryanwilcox/

The Apache ScriptAlias statement has two parameters, the first should
be used in the url (as in one of the above), and the second should
point to a file which exists on your filesystem.  

If the above doesn't help, give us more info about your http.conf mods,
Apache version, and your Moin directory structure.

Roger Haase


--- Ryan Wilcox <RWilcox at olenick.com> wrote:
> Wondering if anyone has any idea what might be causing the error
> here... here are the original error messages again.
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> thanks in advance
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> [Sun Feb 09 20:19:45 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 3)The
> system cannot find the path specified.  : couldn't create child
> process: 720003: moin.cgi
> 
> [Sun Feb 09 20:19:46 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 3)The
> system cannot find the path specified.  : couldn't spawn child
> process: C:/Moin/mywiki/moin.cgi
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> ryan k. wilcox
> 
> olenick  <http://www.olenick.com/> & associates
> 
> phone : 312.214.2577
> 
> mobile : 312.404.9148
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Wilcox 
> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:29 AM
> To: 'moin-user at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: RE: [Moin-user] moinmoin config issues - couldn't create
> child process
> 
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> Thanks for the info... I checked the ScriptAlias and it seems to be
> working fine. To test this, I created a dumb cgi script, called
> hi.cgi that contained bogus characters. When I browse to that
> location, I get an error when processing the cgi script as follows:
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> >C:/moin/ryanwilcox/hi.cgi is not executable; ensure interpreted
> scripts have "#!" first line
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> >don't know how to spawn child process: C:/moin/ryanwilcox/hi.cgi
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> given this error, I am sure that the script is being found.
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> I am wondering if this is caused by an Apache configuration problem
> with Python2.2. 
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> Thanks in advance for the help.
> 
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> 
> ryan k. wilcox
> 
> olenick  <http://www.olenick.com/> & associates
> 
> phone : 312.214.2577
> 
> mobile : 312.404.9148
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juergen Hermann [mailto:jh at web.de] 
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 11:12 PM
> To: moin-user at lists.sourceforge.net; Ryan Wilcox
> Subject: Re: [Moin-user] moinmoin config issues - couldn't create
> child process
> 
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> [Fri Jan 31 12:32:44 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 3)The
> system cannot find the path specified. : couldn't create child
> process: 720003: moin.cgi 
> 
> This is an apache error, and it cannot find your cgi script.... check
> your scriptalias.
> 
> Ciao, Jürgen
> 


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