[knowledgeforge-user] Please help: MoinMoin corrupted just after installation, and empty service name issue.

Tue Aug 7 09:23:07 UTC 2007

Daniel Weck wrote:
> Hello !
> First of all, thank you so much for such a great hosting package ! I am 
> sure our project will find it very useful as soon as it's stable enough.
> 
> I have successfully installed the following services:
> trac
> wordpress
> svn
> 
> 
> ## I have installed the MoinMoin service, and named it "wiki":
> http://knowledgeforge.net/urakawa/wiki/
> 
> Unfortunately I get the following error:
> "data_dir "/org/mywiki/data" does not exists, or has incorrect ownership 
> or permissions."

Yes, thanks for this info Daniel. This issue has just arisen in the last 
week due to the upgrade of the moinmoin on the server (so not directly 
due to KForge). We are working to resolve this and should have fixed 
very soon (this will include fixing your wiki installation).

> ## I have a second problem, for which I need admin help (someone with 
> rights on the server to fix the problem at the source):
> 
> When creating the "www" service, the web interface allowed me to enter 
> an empty string for the service name !! It was an unintentional keyboard 
> hit, and there was unfortunately no safeguard for the web form...which 
> was submitted without a service name !!
>
> As a result, I cannot delete the service, because of the wrong URL:
> http://knowledgeforge.net/project/urakawa/services//delete/
> 
> and I cannot edit it either:
> http://knowledgeforge.net/project/urakawa/services//edit/
> 
> (as you can see, the "//" is due to the empty service name)

Yes, this a bug we have encountered once before :) I have fixed this for 
the time being for you by renaming the service to 'www'.

Regards,

Rufus Pollock