Hi Benjamin, The service I use (ReadyHosting.com) has changing permissions blocked so I have submitted a support ticket to get the directory images changed to 777.
Thanks, Gary At 05:36 PM 11/30/2010, you wrote: >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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
