I have installed Python 2.4 and followed the instruction for installing MoinMoin wiki moin-1.3rc1. (IIS5.1 under XP)

After I had completed my installation steps, I am trying to access wiki using http://localhost/mywiki and get the following error:

CGI Error

The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:

Thanks,

Ajaya Sahoo

I have installed Python 2.4 and followed the instruction for installing MoinMoin wiki moin-1.3. (IIS5.1 under XP)

 Windows Installation using IIS

This is pre-1.3 stuff that still has to be adapted to 1.3. If nobody feels like having to update it, this instructions will be deleted soon. Although it says this is pre-1.3 stuff I have adopted this as I have no idea how should I install for 1.3 Would someone tell me what is the installation procedure for 1.3?   

I am running Windox XP and Python2.4 and IIS5.1

Before creating a wiki instance, you have to download and install the basic MoinMoin software. We assume you already have downloaded the distribution archive to the "C:\TEMP" directory.

Open a console window and enter the following commands:

This will install all necessary files to the "C:\Moin" directory, and create a "install.log" file listing all the files that are created there.

Creating a Wiki Instance

Enter these commands in a console window:

"mywiki" is the name of your wiki instance, you might want to chose a different name best fitting the intended use of this instance; just don't name it simply "wiki", because that would result in confusion and problems later on.

We have to make sure that moin.cgi can find the MoinMoin directory, so that "import MoinMoin" will work. The easiest way to make sure MoinMoin can be imported is to append to sys.path within moin.cgi.

You can change the first two lines of code in moin.cgi to something like this:

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   1 #!python

   2 import sys

   3 sys.path.append(r'C:\Moin\Lib\site-packages')

Notice that we're pointing to the directory which contains the MoinMoin directory, not the directory itself.

Next, you'll need to create two virtual directories in IIS. One for the shared data, and one for this specific wiki instance.

Go to Control Panel => Administrative Tools => Internet Information Service. Open up the tree to Default Web Site.

Right click on Default Web Site and choose New => Virtual directory. This will bring up a wizard with the manditory useless first screen, hit next. Enter "wiki" for the alias name and hit next. Browse to "C:\Moin\share\moin\htdocs" and hit next. Leave the Access permissions at their defaults and hit next. And now you're done, hit finish!

Now follow the same steps, but set the alias to "mywiki" and the path to "C:\Moin\mywiki".

Use IIS Admin to remove permissions to read the data directory: expand the "mywiki" node, right click on data, select Properties, and uncheck Read. Repeat these steps with the underlay directory.

Now you need to setup the 'mywiki' alias so that it will run Python to interpret .cgi files. Right click on your new 'mywiki' alias and choose Properties. On the first tab (Virtual Directory), click the Configuration button. The first tab is the App Mappings tab, which defines which programs to use for each file exetension. Click Add. Browse to your python.exe (probably something like c:\pythonXX\python.exe). Then add -u %s %s after the Python executable path. The Executable line will look something like this: C:\Python22\python.exe -u %s %s. In the Extension box enter .cgi with the begining period. Confirm that the Check that file exists option is not checked (if it is, MoinMoin won't be able to display sub pages). Ok, you're done with the alias configuration, click OK several times to get back out of all the dialog boxes.

If you add another wiki instance, you'll only need to setup the reference to its folder, they can safely share the "wiki" alias which points to static files only.

That is all, try to access your new-born wiki with the URL "http://127.0.0.1/mywiki/".

This is my moin.cgi file under c:\Moin\mywiki directory:

#!python

# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-

"""

    MoinMoin - CGI Driver Script

    <at> copyright: 2000-2004 by Jürgen Hermann <jh <at> web.de>

    <at> license: GNU GPL, see COPYING for details.

"""

# System path configuration

# The path to MoinMoin package and configuration files. Note that the

# path is the path of the directory where the item lives, not the path

# to the item itself!

# If you did a standard install, and you are not a developer, you

# probably want to skip these settings.

import sys

sys.path.append(r'C:\Moin\Lib\site-packages')

## sys.path.insert(0, '/path/to/MoinMoin/dir')

## sys.path.insert(0, '/path/to/wikiconfig/dir')

## sys.path.insert(0, '/path/to/farmconfig/dir')

from MoinMoin.request import RequestCGI

request = RequestCGI()

request.run()

After I had completed my installation steps, I am trying to access wiki using http://127.0.0.1/mywiki and get the following error:

CGI Error

The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:

C:\Moin\Lib\site-packages\MoinMoin\multiconfig.py:97: UserWarning: import of config "wikiconfig" failed due to "No module named wikiconfig"; default configuration used instead.

  warnings.warn(err)

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\moin\mywiki\moin.cgi", line 29, in ?

    request.run()

  File "C:\Moin\Lib\site-packages\MoinMoin\request.py", line 655, in run

    self.open_logs()

  File "C:\Moin\Lib\site-packages\MoinMoin\request.py", line 1052, in open_logs

    sys.stderr = open(os.path.join(self.cfg.data_dir, 'error.log'), 'at')

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'wiki\\data\\error.log'