[pmwiki-users] upload error

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 01:18:26PM -0700, H. Fox wrote:
> On 9/5/07, Hans <design5 at softflow.co.uk> wrote:
> > update:
> >
> > When I CHMOD 2777 to uploads/ directory PmWiki can create new
> > uploads/Group/ subdirectories.
> > When  I then CHMOD 755 to uploads/ and attempt to upload to a new
> > Test group first time, I get an error:
> 
> I think you want 775, not 755.

If you manually created the uploads/ directory, it has to be
777 permissions in order for the webserver to be able to create
subdirectories.  775 isn't sufficient.

The only way to avoid 777 permissions is to let PmWiki
create the uploads/ directory, so that the webserver owns it.

Pm