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I'd like to run ikiwiki under cygwin. I'm new to ikiwiki and have tried to follow the setup tutorial as best I could. I got all the way up to step 7, but I can't get the CGI to run successfully (step 8).

After editing ikiwiki.setup, and running "ikiwiki --setup", the CGI script is successfully created. However, if I then click on "Edit Page" link, I see nothing in the browser and the following in the logs:

Can anyone decipher this for me? I spent some time with cpan earlier today downloading the latest version I could find of prerequisite modules such as HTML::Template and CGI::FormBuilder.

It would help to know what version of CGI::FormBuilder you have. Mine (3.03.01) does not seem to contain this error message. --[[Joey]]

I have version 3.0401 of CGI::FormBuilder -- the latest from CPAN. If you are wondering about any other modules, the answer is likely the same: the latest from CPAN. And you're right: the error string in question does not appear in CGI::FormBuilder. I found it in HTML::Template (version 2.8).


OK, so downgrading CGI::FormBuilder to 3.0302 makes the problem go away. I'll leave it to you to figure out whether the bug is in CGI::FormBuilder or in IkiWiki. --Steve

Maybee this bug should be renamed as "doesn't work with CGI::FormBuilder (3.04)." I get same error on FreeBSD.

HTML::Template::param() : attempt to set parameter 'form-submit' with an array 
ref - parameter is not a TMPL_LOOP! 
at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/CGI/FormBuilder.pm line 1415

version info:

root@freedom# pkg_info | grep p5-CGI
p5-CGI-FastTemplate-1.09 Perl module for manage templates and parses templates
p5-CGI-FormBuilder-3.0401 FormBuilder for CGI
p5-CGI-Session-4.14 Perl extension for persistent session management

--Mark

Seems likely.. So far I've been lazy and stuck with the FormBuilder in Debian, so haven't got a system I can debug this on (sorry). --[[Joey]]


A different problem has reared its ugly head. When I click on "RecentChanges", the CGI complains about an undefined subroutine:

Indeed there is no such routine IkiWiki::XMLin(). I don't understand how this can possibly work -- as it manifestly does on linux.

XMLin is supposed to be exported by XML::Simple. My guess is that, due to a missing error check, XML::Simple is failing to load, and it's not aborting then. You probably need to install that module; in the meantime, I've fixed the missing error check in svn. --[[Joey]]