Tom Jones

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Problems

02/06/09

Apologies, but I'm not sure where to publish some issues I've been having with moinmoin? So I figured I'd document it here on my user home page.

1) I'm currently running moinmoin as a CGI version 1.5.9, all is well, apart from the following.

I can't seem to get http auth to work with auto create logins from a .htaccess file? I've added the following code in the wiki.conf:

from MoinMoin.auth.http import HTTPAuth
auth = [HTTPAuth(autocreate=True)]

But it dumps out a error message ending with AttributeError: RequestCGI object has no attribute cfg.

2) I'm also farming out the wiki, it works But have to manually configure each wiki instance to run by editing the follow within moin.cgi:

import os
os.environ['SCRIPT_NAME'] = '/wiki/customer1'

Then the following wiki works, but cause it's hard coded in, '/wiki/'customer2' won't have any luck access their wiki:

http://www.website.com/wiki/customer1
http://www.website.com/wiki/customer2

My question is how do I configure this within each wiki-instance.conf to load the url path?

Discussion

Why do you run such an ancient version of moin? Btw. MoinMoinQuestions is a good place to ask for help besides joining #moin at chat.freenode.net. The example snippet code for HTTPAuth is not for the 1.5 code base. May be look into the help pages of your wiki. I guess you also did a wrong indenting because of the error message you described "ImportError: No module named http" would have been the correct error message.

If you upgrade to a a recent 1.8.4 then I would suggest to use mod_wsgi. Currently it looks to me that the ScriptAlias is not used for CGI in your setup. I am not sure if I have seen already the config file named wiki.conf for a farmconfiguration. Please tell which distro has done this renaming. -- ReimarBauer 2009-06-12 16:15:13

25/06/09

Thanks for the above.

I'm going to up grade to the latest version of moinmoin but for the short term I need to use 1.5.

I've added the following to one of the farmed wiki.py configuration files:

from MoinMoin.auth import http

class Config(FarmConfig):

    auth = [http]
    user_autocreate = True

It doesn't produce any errors which is nice :)... but it's not auto creating users into moinmoin when they authenticate using .htaccess

I've gone over all the docs twice, three times, making sure I haven't missed anything but I can't see where I'm going wrong, any ideas?

Oh and I still have no idea how to change the script name no each wiki instance so any links within each wiki appear liks so

First wiki instance
http/www.website.com/wiki/instance1/

Second wiki instance
http/www.website.com/wiki/instance2/

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