[pmwiki-users] Unable to save

David Sovinski aslan at aslandata.com
Mon Nov 13 15:00:32 CST 2006


Liz

1) You can delete all "." (.htaccess and so on) files if necessary. 
pmwiki will regenerate them as needed. So if that is the problem it can 
be fixed quickly.

2) What I had to do when I was first starting is to completely blow away 
my first efforts. Read that as delete the ENTIRE pmwiki directory 
structure. And start fresh. Follow the install instructions tot he 
letter. Absolutely only add wiki.d. Set its permissions. And test it. 
Add and test one thing at a time.
Note: You could even do a fresh wiki install on another path. You could 
have mysite.com/wiki and mysite.com/test both being the base of two 
differnt wiki code bases. pmwiki does not care about the directory name. 
It could be pmwiki; wiki; test; or even bowser. Then you access each 
site through a different path. That way you can test new ideas and needs 
before putting them on your main wiki that you tell everyone about.

3) If you're still having problems then I'm sure someone would be glad 
to help look at your site.

Dave (Caspian)

L. Bell wrote:

>On 13-Nov-06, at 3:17 PM, Tegan Dowling wrote:
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>>I seem to recall having trouble like this when I lacked or had a
>>messed up .htaccess file somewhere or other.
>>
>>Of course, I don't even know what that's for, so I can't do more than
>>suggest that if anyone who knows this stuff thinks this could be a
>>possible explanation, then maybe someone could describe where it/they
>>should be and/or what its/their characteristics should be.  (? --
>>sorry)
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>htaccess or some other server-level type thing is definitely my  
>primary suspicion.
>I just don't know what all to check!
>
>Here's my current htaccess:
>
>	AuthName "Protected Area"
>	AuthType Basic
>	AuthUserFile /home/content/m/y/u/myuserID/html/.htpasswd
>	require valid-user
>	
>	RewriteEngine On
>	RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
>	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mydomain.org/$1 [R,L]
>
>I got the ReWrite bits from apache.org.
>Note: I'm happy to share my actual domain/user IDs offline, a bit  
>wary of posting them to an archived list where I'm likely to dump  
>essentially all other security info.  Ya know?
>
>But the directory names et al are correct.  Read access works great.   
>For pmwiki pages and other html.
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>>By the way, I don't think wikilib.d should have 777.
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>Yeah that's admittedly overkill.
>I'm just getting rather desperate to make ANYthing work.
>
>Liz
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>>On 11/13/06, L. Bell <labellz at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>>Hi -
>>>
>>>Changed both of these post-install, based on FilePermissions doc:
>>>        drwxrwxrwx    2 612      518          4096 Nov 12 19:05  
>>>wiki.d
>>>        drwxrwxrwx    2 612      518         12288 Nov 12 18:52  
>>>wikilib.d
>>>
>>>Both wiki.d and wikilib.d are set to 777.
>>>And info says that PHP runs under my userID, not apache's.
>>>Not sure what else to check?
>>>
>>>Liz
>>>
>>>On 13-Nov-06, at 2:42 PM, David Sovinski wrote:
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>>>
>>>>Liz
>>>>
>>>>My first thought is to make sure you have a wiki.d directory and
>>>>the correct permissions set for that directory.
>>>>
>>>>Directory should be (pm)wiki/wiki.d and permissions need to be set
>>>>to 777 or 755 depending on the owner of the directories. Please see
>>>>http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/FilePermissions for more  
>>>>specifics.
>>>>
>>>>Caspian
>>>>
>>>>L. Bell wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>>Kind strangers,
>>>>>
>>>>>I am brand new to wiki admin, less new to unix.
>>>>>
>>>>>The save and preview buttons in my pmwiki do not work, even for
>>>>>the  sandbox page.
>>>>>Can't edit the sidebar, create new pages, ....  Many attempts to
>>>>>correct the problem included changing the (default) skin, and
>>>>>enabling AuthUser.  No avail.
>>>>>
>>>>>One of your archived posts suggested ripping everything out,
>>>>>starting  over, changing one thing at a time.  Seemed reasonable,
>>>>>so I did that  last night.
>>>>>Working now with a fresh installation.
>>>>>
>>>>>Still can't save edits to the sandbox or any other page.  Despair.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Some info:
>>>>>     php 4.3.11, apache 1.3.33, pmwiki v2.1.14, shared linux host
>>>>>     basic unix (.htpasswd + .htaccess) authentication + SSL,  
>>>>>sitewide
>>>>>     htaccess contains one RewriteRule, converts incoming traffic
>>>>>from  http to https.
>>>>>
>>>>>This all seems to work fine, correctly controls access to the
>>>>>site,  HTML test pages, and even the ships-with wiki pages
>>>>>(documentation,  etc.).  Just no wiki edits.
>>>>>I changed the permissions on wikilib.d directory to 777, still
>>>>>nothing.
>>>>>
>>>>>Any advice, ideas where to even start looking?
>>>>>Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>>          
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