<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Dec 13, 2011, at 12:10 PM, Arash Ostadzadeh wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>The file system has to be local to the web server, right?<br>For example, it can probably write to the tmp directory, but the<br>problem is that the contents of tmp are not maintained by the system!<br><br>can you please give exact instructions what to do with this config.php?<br>-Arash<br><br><br>On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Vince Administration<br><<a href="mailto:vadmin@math.uconn.edu">vadmin@math.uconn.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Arash,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If you can find or arrange or somehow get a file system that the web server can write to, then you can put the entire wiki.d directory there, and add a pointer in your config.php.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It is actually quite common to have the wiki.d directory on a different file system from the other pmwiki files.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>The file system has to be local to the web server, right?<br>For example, it can probably write to the tmp directory, but the<br>problem is that the contents of tmp are not maintained by the system!<br><br>can you please give exact instructions what to do with this config.php?<br>-Arash<br></div></blockquote>Ok, look at the page:<div><a href="http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PathVariables">http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PathVariables</a></div><div><br></div><div>In particular, there are two or three variables that you might want to set.</div><div>$WorkDir points to the directory that will contain .flock, and some other stuff, </div><div><br></div><div>$WikiDir points to the wiki files. </div><div>You might also want to check out the pub directory.</div><div><br></div><div>You could try </div><div>$Workdir = "/tmp";</div><div>just to see if it actually does something different. If this is a start, you can create a subdirectory of /tmp, say /tmp/wiki.d</div><div>and set</div><div>$WorkDir="/tmp/wiki.d";</div><div>$WikiDir = "/tmp/wiki.d"</div><div>If you use this for more than testing, you should probably set up scripts to copy the contents of this directory to somewhere safe.</div><div>You really should also get your system person to set up a writable file system. It need not be the same one as where the wiki software resides, and you can use the same methods as above.</div><div><br></div><div> Good Luck</div><div> Vince</div><div><br></div></body></html>