Item5473: Initial value of {TemplatePath} should copy setting of {TemplateDir}

Priority:	CurrentState:	AppliesTo:	Component:	WaitingFor:
Normal	Closed	Engine	Configure

This has cost me one hour of sweating and a Google search to find the answer in TWiki:Support.Perl5ErrorsTemplateProblem.

The inititial setting of {TemplatePath} contained cgi-bin so this resulted in a bogus path (with this provider the cgi-bin location is not where twiki is installed.

My suggestion is to create the initial value of {TemplatePath} based on {TemplateDir}.

And {MimeTypesFileName} should be based on {DataDir}.

-- TWiki:Main/ArthurClemens - 25 Mar 2008

It looks like it should. TWiki.spec says:

$TWiki::cfg{TemplatePath} = '$TWiki::cfg{TemplateDir}/$web/$name.$skin.tmpl, $TWiki::cfg{TemplateDir}/$name.$skin.tmpl, $TWiki::cfg{TemplateDir}/$web/$name.tmpl, $TWiki::cfg{TemplateDir}/$name.tmpl, $web.$skinSkin$nameTemplate, $TWiki::cfg{SystemWebName}.$skinSkin$nameTemplate, $web.$nameTemplate, $TWiki::cfg{SystemWebName}.$nameTemplate';

Perhaps something went wrong with my initial setup...

-- TWiki:Main/ArthurClemens - 25 Mar 2008

no, its one of the broken bits - the $TWiki::cfg{TemplateDir} bit is evaluated as it is written to the cfg file, and so when you later change {TemplateDir} configure doesn't have any way to know whats going on.

Unfortuanatly, we also can't just re-grab the {TemplatePath} from TWiki.spec as the user may have customised the {TemplatePath}.

Tis a problem, that may only be solveable by replacing the $TWiki::cfg{TemplateDir} with a non-perl based variable, that is then evaluated at when the cfg's are loaded into the running TWiki.

-- TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit - 30 Mar 2008

I'm not sure how {TemplatePath} comes to be saved with absolute paths in it in the first place. I intended that such "derived" variables should be expanded at run-time - hence the single quotes - but this seems to be broken.

The problem is with configure - this situation should never arise, IMHO.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 27 May 2008

Fixed on trunk

-- CrawfordCurrie - 06 Nov 2009