2012-01-07 installing MoinMoin on a OVH server

Laurent Perrinet

2012-01-07 13:15:51

due to a disruption on my previous server, I had to move in a rush to a new server.
choosing the right provider
- http://240plan.ovh.net/infos/python.cgi
- http://240plan.ovh.net/net2ftp/index.php
getting a basic MoinMoin instance running
- http://moinmo.in/via_ftp_on_vserver
- http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/raw-file/1.9.3/docs/REQUIREMENTS
getting the path of the pages on the server using the explore.py script in http://wiki.python.org/jython/HelpOnInstalling/ApacheOnLinuxFtp

setting up an empty MoinMoin instance, using:

the following cgi-bin/index.cgi script:

 1 #!/usr/bin/python
 2
 3 import sys, os
 4
 5 sys.path.insert(0, '/homez.52/invibe/moin')
 6
 7 os.environ['FCGI_FORCE_CGI'] = 'N' # 'Y' for (slow) CGI, 'N' for FCGI
 8
 9 from MoinMoin.web.flup_frontend import CGIFrontEnd
10 CGIFrontEnd().run()

setting up the right path in xikiconfig.py :

1     data_dir = '/homez.52/invibe/moin/data/'
2     data_underlay_dir = '/homez.52/invibe/moin/underlay_min/'
3     url_prefix_static = '/moin_static193'
4     url_mappings = {'/cgi-bin/index.cgi':'/LaurentPerrinet'}

note that I installed the htdocs as www/moin_static193

once functional, getting my old stuff on the new server
- do not forget to set up permissions to 755 on the site (I used their online ftp tool for that - http://240plan.ovh.net/net2ftp/index.php )

rewrite rule

http://rabaix.net/en/articles/2007/08/31/how-to-install-django-on-ovh-net
http://guide.ovh.com/HtaccessModRewrite

I opted for this config in the www/.htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^LaurentPerrinet$  LaurentPerrinet/ [L]
RewriteRule ^LaurentPerrinet(.*)$  /cgi-bin/index.cgi$1 [L]
RewriteRule !(moin_static193|images|robots.txt|favicon.ico|cgi-bin) LaurentPerrinet  [L]

overall, this process was not linear and quite frustrating as there is no ssh (only a ftp) access and absolutely no simple guide and worse, no logfile from apache (you see quite often an "error 500" without any cue as what is going wrong)

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