ikiwiki/doc/bugs/Problems_using_cygwin.mdwn

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:

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==> /var/log/apache2/access_log <==
192.168.0.125 - - [06/Oct/2006:15:12:05 -0500] "GET /cgi-bin/ikiwiki.cgi?page=index&do=edit HTTP/1.1" 500 666

==> /var/log/apache2/error_log <==
[Fri Oct 06 15:12:07 2006] [error] [client 192.168.0.125] HTML::Template::param() : attempt to set parameter 'form-submit' with an array ref - parameter is not a TMPL_LOOP! at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/CGI/FormBuilder.pm line 1415, referer: http://imrisws36/wiki/
[Fri Oct 06 15:12:07 2006] [error] [client 192.168.0.125] Premature end of script headers: ikiwiki.cgi, referer: http://imrisws36/wiki/
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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).

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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

I got same error message 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


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

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==> apache2/error_log <==
[Thu Oct 12 16:20:52 2006] [error] [client 192.168.0.125] Undefined subroutine &IkiWiki::XMLin called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/IkiWiki/Rcs/svn.pm line 143., referer: http://imrisws36/wiki/index.html?updated
[Thu Oct 12 16:20:52 2006] [error] [client 192.168.0.125] Premature end of script headers: ikiwiki.cgi, referer: http://imrisws36/wiki/index.html?updated
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Indeed there is no such routine IkiWiki::XMLin().  I don't understand how this can possibly work -- as it manifestly does on linux.