Description

If Cygwin is used to install MoinMoin on Win32/Apache, the install completes without error but MoinMoin does not work.

Steps to reproduce

In a Cygwin bash shell, working in a temporary directory:

tar xfz moin-1.5.2.tar.gz
cd moin-1.5.2
python setup.py install --record=install.log

In a Cygwin bash shell, working in C:\ directory:

mkdir Moin
cp -R /cygdrive/c/Python24/share/moin/{data,underlay} Moin/mywiki/
cp /cygdrive/c/Python24/share/moin/config/wikiconfig.py Moin/mywiki/
cp /cygdrive/c/Python24/share/moin/server/* Moin/mywiki/

Edit wikiconfig.py with:

    sitename = u'MyWiki'
    data_dir = 'C:/Moin/mywiki/data/'
    data_underlay_dir = 'C:/Moin/mywiki/underlay/'

Edit moin.cgi with:

sys.path.insert(0, 'C:/Moin/mywiki')

Edit Apache httpd.conf with:

Alias        /wiki/     "C:/Python24/share/moin/htdocs/"
ScriptAlias /mywiki    "C:/Moin/mywiki/moin.cgi"

Restart Apache

Gives a 500 error because moin.cgi is not executable, so

chmod a+x /cygdrive/c/Moin/mywiki/moin.cgi

Doesn't work, cygwin permissions are not Windows permissions, so try using Windows Explorer to add 'Read & Execute' permissions to 'Everyone' (this is overkill but it'll do until I get it working)

Loads this time with error:
data_dir "C:\Moin\mywiki\data" does not exists, or has incorrect ownership or permissions.

Give 'Everyone' permission to read 'data' and 'underlay' from Windows Explorer. Get error:
Could not import plugin package "C:\Moin\mywiki\data/plugin" because of ImportError: No module named plugin.

Give everybody permission to read 'data/plugin', get error:
No module named theme

Ok, I think this is a permissions problem.

Example

n/a

Details

Workaround

Don't use Cygwin.

There might be a permission-setting workaround but I don't know Windows permissions well enough to say. The naive option of making C:/Moin/mywiki readable failed, so this permission is not inherited correctly.

Discussion

Please use correct windows paths with backslashes anywhere if you are using the native Python interpreter and try again.

• Ok, I've tried this in every file except Apache httpd.conf (where forward-slashes are the convention). It makes no difference.

  • -- alisdair (original submitter)

You are using relative paths at the beginning. What is your working directory?

• I unpacked in a temp directory, I think it was C:\temporary. The file copying was in C:\. I copied it to the report in two different chunks, I was working in two different shells so there was no cd in between. I've updated the report to reflect this.

  • -- alisdair

Plan

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• Status: this looks rather like an installation / permissions problem, not a moin bug. reopen if you have evidence for the contrary.

CategoryMoinMoinNoBug