Re: [webmin-devel] Testing environment?

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Wil Cooley <wc...@na...> wrote ..
> 
> I'm trying to set up a testing environment so I can build unit tests
> that don't require going through HTTP.  Has anyone done this already and
> if so, would you share it?  I'm having a heck of a time doing it myself.
> 
> I know I can write tests that use WWW::Mechanize or a similar mechanism,
> and probably will for acceptance tests, but I want to write simpler
> tests to do things like instantiate objects.  My test script keeps dying
> with "Failed to determine Webmin root from SERVER_ROOT or
> SCRIPT_FILENAME"; I've written code to fill %ENV with all the same data
> as a CGI script and dumped %ENV and know it's all there, but to no
> avail.  I've tracked the problem so far down to that init_config is
> unable to produce a @lang_order_list with data and will continue beating
> on it.

Make sure that when you run your CGI scripts from the command line, you use a full path like /usr/libexec/webmin/yourmodule/something.cgi instead of just ./something.cgi . Webmin's init_config function uses the path to work out
the root directory and module name, and produces that cryptic message if it cannot ..

 - Jamie