[pmwiki-users] FilePermissions

[Olga Lositsky]

Hi Gilles,

Thank you for your reply. The problem turned out to be really stupid! In my
config.php file, I was specifiying: $UploadDir = "pmwiki/uploads"; instead
of just "uploads". I thought that the current directory was public_html, but
it is actually pmwiki.

I do still have a question though. The permissions for my uploads and wiki.d
directories are:

drwxrwxrwx    2 compmem  compmem      4096 Dec 16 16:01 uploads
drwxrwxr-x    2 compmem  compmem      4096 Dec 17 13:07 wiki.d

Is this how they should be? Is there any way to make the site more secure?

Thank you,
Olga



On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:58 AM, ABClf <languefrancaise at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Olga,
>
> here are some basic ideas ; not sure any will help you to solve your
> problem.
>
> -do you have the last pmwiki installed ? there used to be a bug for
> something similar(?) to your problem in an older version
> (cf. http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00396)
>
> -for information, what does you ftp program say about :
> wiki.d/
> uploads/
> Are they writable ? Mine are 755 and working fine.
>
> -be sure you gave write rights to the real upload destination folder
> (search for « upload » in your config to see if there aren't some
> special config things related to upload, for example a dedicated
> folder that is not the default one) :
> « Defaults to uploads/ in the pmwiki directory, but can be set to any
> location on the server. This directory must be writable by the
> webserver process if uploading is to occur. »
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/UploadVariables#UploadDir
>
> -have a look at : http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/UploadsAdmin : and
> especially §Upload directory configuration (?)
> I don't remember what I did when I installed my PmWiki ; but, in that
> page, it is said : "Important: do NOT create the uploads directory
> yet! See the next paragraph." So, see next paragraph ; who knows ?
>
> Hope this can help a little (though not sure ;).
>
> Gilles.
>
>
> 2010/12/16 Olga Lositsky <olgita3 at gmail.com>:
> > Dear Pmwiki Users,
> >
> > I have attempted to enable uploads on our Wiki. In addition to changes in
> > the config file, I created an uploads directory and gave it
> world-writable
> > permissions using chmod 777 as described here:
> > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/FilePermissions
> >
> > Unfortunately, when I try to upload a file, I get this message:
> >
> > Warning: mkdir() failed (Permission denied) in
> > /var/www/public_html/pmwiki/pmwiki.php on line 548
> >
> > PmWiki can't process your request
> >
> > PmWiki needs to have a writable /pmwiki/ directory before it can
> continue.
> > You can create the directory manually by executing the following commands
> on
> > your server:
> >
> >     mkdir //pmwiki
> >     chmod 777 //pmwiki
> >
> > Does this mean that the webserver still does not have permission to write
> in
> > uploads or could there be another problem?
> >
> > I would really appreciate any tips!
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Olga
> >
> >
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