StratoInstallationNotes

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Notes on TWiki installation using my <nop>PowerWeb account from [[http://www.strato.de][Strato]]:

   * The right version of perl was at =/usr/bin/perl58= on my server
   * Perl CGI scripts must have a =.pl= extension in the =cgi-bin= directory
   * Had to remove the =-T= flag from all scripts (when executing them on the
     Strato server, perl complains it is "too late" to apply the flag)
   * The Strato servers do not provide RCS, so I had to use =RcsLite= mode
   * =.htpasswd= and =.htaccess= files seem to work OK. However, I had to
     remove the first =SetHandler blabla= rule in =.htaccess= before anything worked at all.
   * =egrep= does not seem to be available on my server. Therefore, I could not get regular
     expression searches to work. See also TWiki:Support/HowToReplaceEgrepSearch.
     I am now using a perl script =egrep.pl= which emulates part of the =egrep= functionality;
     hopefully enough to keep TWiki working.
   * "Changes" in [[Main.WebLeftBar][<nop>Main.WebLeftBar]] did not work since it referred to
     =cgi-bin/changes= rather than =cgi-bin/changes.pl=
   * http://www.clausbrod.de/info.php lists interesting system stats
   * Change notifications via email did not work. Stato does not
     provide cron support in the package I'm using, and I think TWiki requires
     a crontab entry for this. See TWiki:Support/MailNotifyWithoutCron
     and TWiki:Codev/MailNotifyCgiScript for a potential solution.
     For the time being, I installed http://www.clausbrod.de/cgi-bin/notify.pl
     which can be run from the browser. Also, I registered for an account at
     http://www.cron-server.de, and they are now running a daily cron job for me
     every day.
   * We also seem to have problems finding backlinks.
   * Performance wasn't all that great, really. Now testing
     TWiki:Plugins/CacheAddOn, which improves
     things a _LOT_, but introduces a few update glitches; see
     TWiki:Plugins/CacheAddOnDev.
     Could also try <tt>SelfLoader</tt>
     (TWiki:Codev/ModuleLoadingPerformanceEnhancements).
   * Made TWiki more search-engine friendly:
      * Support for variable TOPICTITLE which can set within the topic
      * Improved page layout so that search engines see the body
        text first (well, almost) rather than lengthy CSS code
   * Could not get short URLs to work fully, only an approximation - see http://www.clausbrod.de/Blog/BlogOnSoftware20041229

To do:
   * Improve homepage protection (see TWiki:Support/UsingVariablesWithAccessControl)
   * Find permanent solution for cronjobs
   * Add TWiki:Plugins/CounterPlugin
   * Site needs to become even more search engine friendly
     (set the right meta tags per topic)
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