More precisely, chmod the images directory so that the webserver can write to it. (If you don't have access to chown or chgrp, then you will indeed have to chmod it to 777.)
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:54 PM, trueskew <[email protected]> wrote: > chmod -R 777 images > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Gary Roush >> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 12:48 PM >> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list >> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help >> >> Hi Benjamin, >> >> I removed those two lines from LocalSettings.php and got a >> different error message of "Could not create directory >> "public/1/1f"". So it still can not create a directory but >> at least found the images directory. What now? >> >> Thanks, >> Gary >> >> At 10:46 AM 11/30/2010, you wrote: >> >On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Gary Roush >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > Interesting that "public" is actually the images directory. >> >Yeah, that's rather unhelpful behavior. See >> >https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13812 (which I'm >> >re-adding to my to-do list). >> > >> > > $wgUploadPath = true; ///< defaults to "{$wgScriptPath}/images" >> > > $wgUploadDirectory = true; ///< defaults to "{$IP}/images" >> >$wgUploadPath and $wgUploadDirectory default to false, which allows >> >them to be initialized in Setup.php; setting them to true is >> probably >> >causing the odd behavior. You actually don't need to set >> them at all >> >if you just want the defaults, so you should remove those two lines >> >from LocalSettings.php. >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >MediaWiki-l mailing list >> >[email protected] >> >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
