[Moin-user] Error accessing page after moving to new server

[Yusuf Abdulghani]

Oh didn't to send it to the list...So here it is.

Yusuf

On Apr 23, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Yusuf Abdulghani wrote:

> Hi Rick,
>
> I checked the permissions. They seem to be set right.
>
> The old wiki used to live it "http://subdomainA.domain.com/mywiki".
>
> I want the new wiki to live in "http://subdomainB.domain.com".
>
> In order to do this I set up the default httpd configuration file  
> under directory /etc/httpd/sites/ as follows:
>
>         Alias "/wiki/" "/usr/local/share/moin/htdocs/"
>         ScriptAlias / "/Volumes/Clack/wiki/mywiki/moin.cgi"
>
> The wiki is accessed via http://subdomainB.domain.com. This does  
> not work. Only FrontPage shows successfully (which is explicitly  
> set in the wikiconfig.py). Cannot access any other pages, although  
> they do exist and permissions is set correctly.
>
> If I change the ScriptAlias to say:
>
>         ScriptAlias /mywiki "/Volumes/Clack/wiki/mywiki/moin.cgi"
>
> and then access my wiki though http://subdomainB.domain.com/mywiki,  
> everything seems to work fine. I can see and edit all pages.
>
> Any ideas how to set up the wiki so that I can access directly via  
> subdomain.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
> Yusuf
>
> On Apr 23, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Rick VanDerveer wrote:
>
>> Check permissions?
>>
>> Also, when I were migrate my wiki to a new server, this is what I do:
>>  - set up new server, configured and working the way I expect it  
>> should be (test to make sure you can create pages, etc).
>>  - Once everything is working, copy in the 'data' directory from  
>> the old server to the new.  Everything should just work.
>>
>> I've performed this trick many-many times now.  For example, I  
>> have my 'live" server that everyone uses. But, if I want to play  
>> with the back-end, I duplicate it to a spare box or VMware (Mac:  
>> think Parallels) session.
>>
>> Also, if you care, you can pretty easily upgrade Python to 2.5,  
>> which is faster than 2.3.  I have instructions here:
>> http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RickVanderveer/ApacheOnMacOsx
>> -Rick
>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry, did'nt send out system spec before:
>>
>> Here is what I am running:
>>
>> Release 1.5.7
>> Revision release
>> Python version 2.3.5 (#1, Jul 25 2006, 00:38:48)
>> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)]
>> Python installed to /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ 
>> Versions/2.3
>> PyXML is NOT installed
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Yusuf
>>
>> On Apr 23, 2007, at 12:51 PM, Yusuf Abdulghani wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just moved our wiki to a new server. After installing the wiki  
>>> to the new server, I get the following message when I try to run  
>>> the ?action=test:
>>>
>>> testBasicPackageThings  
>>> (MoinMoin._tests.test_packages.UnsafePackageTestcase) ... ERROR
>>>
>>>
>>> I am also not able to go to any subpages in the wiki. Only the  
>>> "FrontPage" is visible and the rest of the pages are not  
>>> accessible. I believe the only reason "FrontPage" shows up is  
>>> because I have set it to show up explicitly in my wiki_config.py  
>>> file. If I click on any pages, it give me the following error  
>>> message:
>>>
>>> Not Found
>>>
>>> The requested URL /FrontPage was not found on this server.
>>>
>>> Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying  
>>> to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any ideas what I might be doing wrong. Any recommendations?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Yusuf
>>>
>>>
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