Wiki semi-operational...

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Mon Sep 18 13:55:49 IST 2006


On 18/09/06, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/09/06, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > I copied over the wiki from my ECS site to my blacknight.ie site. Any
> > ideas where I might have gone wrong? You folks know more about docuwiki
> > admin than I do!
> >
> > It appears that everyone has lost write privs to pages. Any ideas how I
> > might fix it?
>
> Check that the cache and changes.log can be written (by the webserver
> user... This is likely OK, since do=check doesn't complain).
> Also, clearing out the cache might be a good idea (cd <dokuwiki root
> directory>; rm -rf data/cache/?/*).
>
> All the data/* subdirectories _and all content below that_ need be
> writeable... I'm not exactly sure as to how thoroughly do=check will
> check this. Doing a recursive chown and/or chmod vannot be wrong
> there:-).
>
> Also, do you have anything ... interresting... set in httpd.conf
> and/or .htaccess? DW can "survive" quite "harsh" environments
> (safe_mode etc), but one might need ... adjust... things. Those errors
> usually make the DW completely non-functional, so... We would've
> noticed that one quicker:-)
>

Small update:
If you create a new page (by normal measures), this will be editable,
so thus really looks like some form of permission-like error.

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-- Glenn
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