[Pmwiki-users] AdminQ2 - Problems with directory permissions on Unix server

[Robin Sheat]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:27:04PM -0800, Steven Leite wrote:
> I don't know about PHP, UNIX, filepermissions, and all that stuff. 
> All I know is scripts have to be uploaded in txt mode, and they have
> to be marked as executable (in the case of perl, or .cgi .. I think
> php doesnt' matter).  So I can't truly appreciate the extent that Pm
> has gone to to make PmWiki "safe".  I see a lot of talk about it on
> the list, so I assume the script is very safe to run.  But at the
> expense of ... ???
I'm of the opinion that anyone using a UNIX system for a server should 
know about UNIX permissions. If they are wrong, bad things can happen. 
In the case of PmWiki, you don't have to worry about executable 
permissions, but you do have to have the read/write access appropriate 
to your system (which can depend how the server is set out, eg in my 
case the files are owned by me, and are of the webservers group, and all 
the files are user and group read/writable)

Did you have a look at PmWiki/ResettingPagePermissions on your local 
PmWiki server (linked to from the 'Troubleshooting' page)

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