Item10718: Foswiki 1.0.9 installation

I have installed foswiki 1.9 on Centos(i had used the decription on http://foswiki.org/Support/CentOS).

But when I try to configure with http://localhost:81/foswiki/bin/configure I got the error "You don't have permission to access /foswiki/bin/configure on this server".

The link http://localhost:81/foswiki/ doesn't work either.

I got the message: Software error:

Content-type: text/plain

Perl error when reading LocalSite.cfg:

Please inform the site admin. at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CGI/Carp.pm line 379

The CGI Modul is installed.

-- SahinIl - 06 May 2011

First - there is no Foswiki 1.9. There was a 1.0.9 and that is probably what you mean.

The support topic you refer to was distorted by someone that has done a very untypical installation using port 81. You should not follow those instructions.

You should follow the normal installation instruction that comes with 1.1.3 which is the latest release.

I have put a fat warning on that support topic. It needs to be rewritten for 1.1.X and turned into a normal installation on port 80.

-- KennethLavrsen - 08 May 2011

I have the same issue with you when I install Foswiki-1.1.4 on CentOS 6.2. You need to run sestatus command to check if you enable SELinux(http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux). My SELinux is enabled after I check.

go to /var/www/ ls -lZ drwxr-xr-x. apache apache unconfined_u:object_r:default_t:s0 foswiki drwxr-xr-x. apache apache system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 html

Change the security context for foswiki as below.

chcon -Rv --usr=system_u --type=httpd_sys_content_t foswiki

After that, i can access http://localhost:81/foswiki/bin/configure now.

Hope this helps!

-- NobelYang - 01 Apr 2012

Hi Nobel,

That sounds like terribly useful information for Centos users. Do you have time to turn your tip here into an Support.FAQ? Thanks!

-- PaulHarvey - 01 Apr 2012

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