= Description =
If Cygwin is used to install MoinMoin on Win32/Apache, the install completes without error but MoinMoin does not work.

== Steps to reproduce ==

In a Cygwin bash shell, working in a temporary directory:

{{{
tar xfz moin-1.5.2.tar.gz
cd moin-1.5.2
python setup.py install --record=install.log
}}}

In a Cygwin bash shell, working in C:\ directory:

{{{
mkdir Moin
cp -R /cygdrive/c/Python24/share/moin/{data,underlay} Moin/mywiki/
cp /cygdrive/c/Python24/share/moin/config/wikiconfig.py Moin/mywiki/
cp /cygdrive/c/Python24/share/moin/server/* Moin/mywiki/
}}}

Edit wikiconfig.py with:

{{{
    sitename = u'MyWiki'
    data_dir = 'C:/Moin/mywiki/data/'
    data_underlay_dir = 'C:/Moin/mywiki/underlay/'
}}}

Edit moin.cgi with:

{{{
#!C:/Python24/python.exe
sys.path.insert(0, 'C:/Moin/mywiki')
}}}

Edit Apache httpd.conf with:

{{{
Alias        /wiki/     "C:/Python24/share/moin/htdocs/"
ScriptAlias /mywiki    "C:/Moin/mywiki/moin.cgi"
}}}

Restart Apache

Gives a 500 error because moin.cgi is not executable, so

{{{
chmod a+x /cygdrive/c/Moin/mywiki/moin.cgi
}}}

Doesn't work, cygwin permissions are not Windows permissions, so try using Windows Explorer to add 'Read & Execute' permissions to 'Everyone' (this is overkill but it'll do until I get it working)

Loads this time with error:<<BR>> '''data_dir "C:\Moin\mywiki\data" does not exists, or has incorrect ownership or permissions.'''

Give 'Everyone' permission to read 'data' and 'underlay' from Windows Explorer. Get error:<<BR>> '''Could not import plugin package "C:\Moin\mywiki\data/plugin" because of ImportError: No module named plugin.'''

Give everybody permission to read 'data/plugin', get error:<<BR>> '''No module named theme'''

Ok, I think this is a permissions problem.

== Example ==
n/a

== Details ==
|| '''MoinMoin 1.5.2''' || ||
|| '''Windows XP SP2''' || ||
|| '''ActivePython 2.4.2''' || ||
|| '''Apache 1.3.34''' || ||


== Workaround ==
Don't use Cygwin.

There might be a permission-setting workaround but I don't know Windows permissions well enough to say. The naive option of making C:/Moin/mywiki readable failed, so this permission is not inherited correctly.

= Discussion =
Please use correct windows paths with backslashes anywhere if you are using the native Python interpreter and try again.

 Ok, I've tried this in every file except Apache httpd.conf (where forward-slashes are the convention). It makes no difference.
  -- [[alisdair]] (original submitter)

You are using relative paths at the beginning. What is your working directory?

 I unpacked in a temp directory, I think it was C:\temporary. The file copying was in C:\. I copied it to the report in two different chunks, I was working in two different shells so there was no `cd` in between. I've updated the report to reflect this.
  -- [[alisdair]]

= Plan =
## This part is for Moin``Moin developers:
 * Priority:  
 * Assigned to: 
 * Status: this looks rather like an installation / permissions problem, not a moin bug. reopen if you have evidence for the contrary.

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