[pmwiki-users] RE : Cannot make uploads to work

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:55:18PM +0200, Olivier Citeau wrote:
>    May I have some help on these topic ?
>       
>      I could not make the upload feature to work.
>      When I click "Upload" button, it works and the it comes back to the
>      following page :
>      http://ociteau.free.fr/pbwiki/index.php?n=Main.Files

When you say "it works" -- do you mean that the file is
correctly uploaded, or... ?

>      In UploadsAdmin doc they say "Executing PmWiki with uploads enabled will
>      prompt you with the set of steps required to create the uploads
>      directory on your server".
>      But pmWiki does not prompt me !

It will prompt only if the uploads/ directory doesn't exist.  If
the directory exists, then it doesn't need to create it.  :-)

>      Next I create the "uploads" directory : same behaviour
>      If I upload the file with FTP, pmWiki see the file.
>       
>      Unix rights of the "uploads" directory is drwx------
>      I try to change it, but it is not supported by the ftp server, so I
>      cannot change Unix right.

What's the ownership of the uploads/ directory?  For that matter,
what's the ownership of the wiki.d/ directory (they should be the same).

>      Now, I see that "wiki.d" is set as drwxr-xr-x.
>      wiki.d was created by pmwiki, so I can I make pmwiki to prompt me in
>      order to create the uploads directory ?

Just remove the existing uploads directory, and then PmWiki will
prompt for its creation.  (The prompt may appear at the bottom
of the page, though, instead of the top.)

Pm