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@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ This is using my custom rcs.pm which has been used thousands of times.
 > version 2.3. The only other way it could happen is if ikiwiki does not
 > have saved state about the page that it's editing (in .ikiwiki/index).
 
+>> Rebuilt it several times. Now that I think of it, I think my early problem of having
+>> no content in the textbox was before I rebuilt the cgi. And after I rebuilt the whole webpage was empty.
+
 Now I regenerated my ikiwiki.cgi again (no change to my configuration,
 and I just get an empty HTML page when attempting editing or "create".
 
@@ -81,6 +84,11 @@ but I still have empty pages for editing (no textbox no html at all).
 >> Not using apache. Nothing useful in logs other thn the HTTP return codes are "0" and bytes is "-"
 >> on the empty ikiwiki.cgi output (should say " 200 " followed by bytes).
 
+>>> You need to either figure out what your web server does with stderr
+>>> from cgi programs, or run ikiwiki.cgi at the command line with an
+>>> appropriate environment so it thinks it's being called from a web
+>>> server, so you can see how it's failing. --[[Joey]]
+
 (I am posting this now, but will do some research and post some more.)
 
 Is there any webpage with upgrade steps?
@@ -88,6 +96,12 @@ Is there any webpage with upgrade steps?
 > Users are expected to read [[news]], which points out any incompatible
 > changes or cases where manual action is needed.
 
+>> I read it but read the usedirs option wrong :(.
+>> Also it appears to be missing the news from between 1.40 to 2.0 unless they dont' exist.
+>> If they do exist maybe they have release notes I need?
+
+>>> All the old ones are in the NEWS file. --[[Joey]]
+
 --JeremyReed
 
 My followup: I used a new ikiwiki.setup based on the latest version. But no changes for me.
@@ -109,6 +123,8 @@ on changes to revision control modules. Has something changed? I will also look.
 > No, the rcs interface has not needed to change in a long time. Also,
 > nothing is done with the rcs for do=prefs.
 
+>> Thanks. I also checked differences between 1.40 Rcs plugins and didn't notice anything significant.
+
 --JeremyReed
 
 Another Followup: I created a new ikiwiki configuration and did the --setup to