[pmwiki-users] ownership probems

[adam overton]

yeeesh.
NEVERMIND

turns out not all of the transferred directories retained their permissions. they all got changed from 777 to 755.
switching them back seems to solve the issue, and so ownership is not a problem afterall.

adam



On 26 Mar 2011, at 10:24 PM, adam overton wrote:

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> indeed, i've confirmed that it's a problem with ownership. i experimented by getting rid of the contents of wiki.d altogether, and started creating files from scratch via the wiki, with no problems at all. but as soon as i drag a copy of a pre-existing page in there and try to save it, i get permission denied messages.
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> how do other people get around this? can't one quickly copy one's site into a directory and be up and running in seconds? all the important stuff is in my wonderfully customized Site.___ files.
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> do i need to ask my serverhost to copy them for me?
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> thanks,
> adam
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> On 26 Mar 2011, at 9:06 PM, adam overton wrote:
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>> hi
>> i'm trying to create a new site hosted on the same server as my previous one.
>> for the new site, i basically just want to quickly duplicate the pmwiki package from my customized main site, and use that as the template. to do this, i simply downloaded all my pmwiki files for the old site via ftp onto my desktop, and then reuploaded them into the new directory.
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>> things are almost working at this point, and permissions for directories seem to be fine, but when i try to open and save any pages that already existed on the previous site, like MyGroup.index, i get permission errors, for instance:
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>> Warning: fopen(wiki.d/MyGroup/MyGroup.index,new) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/user/public_html/ssb/pmwiki.php on line 971 ...
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>> when i make new pages from scratch, i don't get the same errors (except for errors with AllRecentChanges).
>> i think this is due to the fact that most of the pages on my previous distribution have 99:99 as the owner, but once they got downloaded to my computer, they were reassigned the owner of the cpu.
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>> does anyone have any tips for quickly and easily duplicating files from a site so that permissions are preserved? or for correcting this quickly and easily? the ftp client i use allows me to change permissions, but not owners, of files. i know i could probably remove the offending files, create them from within pmwiki, and then just copy and paste in the edit window, but that will take awhile.
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>> thanks,
>> adam
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