[Pmwiki-users] Install then problem...

[Chick Foxgrover]

> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 04:07:23PM -0400, Chick Foxgrover wrote:
>> I have just installed pmwiki at my host (Dreamhost) where I'm
>> running  PHP as CGI. The home page loads properly and created the
>> wiki.d  directory but if I try any link in the site I get:
>> ---------
>> Warning: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=12) state=1 in
>> /usr/local/dh/cgi-system/php.cgi on line 2788
>> [...]
>> Any ideas? I've tried setting the permissions on multiple files and
>> directories in case that was the problem.
>> You can see this at http://wexwiki.netrenga.com

--On Thursday, July 29, 2004 0:58 -0600 "Patrick R. Michaud" 
<pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:

> I just tried this and it appears to be working now...were you able
> to fix the problem?  (If so, how?)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Pm

Interesting question! Some months ago I had EXACTLY  the same problem 
(I mean even the same line 2788 was referenced in the error) with a PHP 
content management system I installed at Dreamhost and needed to change 
the mode in which PHP was running on the site to non-CGI (Apache 
module?) Then it worked. I have been experimenting with many PHP 
content management scripts and have installed about 12 of them so I'm 
getting more familiar with some of the problems. Mostly permission 
problems.

So I though well maybe PMWiki can't run with PHP as CGI...
But then I thought after checking all the permissions, that I should 
check the config.php again to see if there were any file location 
references I had missed and discovered ...I had not made a config.php!. 
It is a little unclear in the instruction whether it is NECESSARY or 
only needed if you want to customize the installaltion. But I had 
looked at sample-config.php and made some changes but I must have done 
it only on a local version and not uploaded to my server So I created a 
simple config.php in local directory et voila!

Now I still don't understand why this message is produced but there it 
is.  Now that I've seen it twice with two completely different scripts 
I have a little better idea what might be happening. You will 
understand this much better. Later that day got an error on the flock 
file which would not work with permissions set to 644 but thanks to 
your terrific error handler I was able to understand what to do with 
it. I set it to 777 and I'm fine if perhaps too wide open.

Sorry to be so long-winded! If one is not much of a Linux/Unix jock 
these installations are always a bit of an adventure. It would be 
interesting to know what the permission mapping of each directory and 
file should be in a perfect world. In any case, now a happy PmWiki'er, 
learning the ropes!

Thanks
Chick Foxgrover