[pmwiki-users] Problem with flock on local server

[Tegan Dowling]

On 2/18/07, David B Smith <davidbrucesmith at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I am trying to set up PMwiki on my local server.  It installs fine, and I
> can see the pages from the wiki that I copied (a wiki of mine off site).
> However, when I try to edit, I get the following error message:
>
>
> Warning: fopen(wiki.d/.flock) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream:
> Permission denied in
> /Users/David/Sites/Familywiki/pmwiki.php on line 417
>
> PmWiki can't process your request
>
> Cannot acquire lockfile

You need to delete the .flock file from the wiki.d directory (The wiki
will re-create it the first time the wiki is accessed), and the wiki.d
directory (along with the uploads directory, its sub-directories and
the cache directory) needs to have chmod = 777

hth.