Is umask not correct for www-data? Should be 022 which would set the directory 
to a 755 on creation. 

Tom

> On Jan 9, 2016, at 12:26 PM, Nate McElroy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Module (Apache 2.0 Handler)
> 
>> On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Tom <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> How are you running php? Module, CGI or FastCGI.
>> 
>> Tom
>> 
>>>> On Jan 9, 2016, at 12:42 AM, Nate McElroy <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> When I attempt a file upload, I get the following error:
>>> 
>>> "Could not create directory "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/d/db" "
>>> 
>>> If I go to the images directory (owned by www-data:www-data) with 755
>>> permission (and all subsequent directories, too), I see that the
>> directory
>>> ~/d/db has been created BUT only has "drw-r--r--" permissions.  If I then
>>> change permission to 755 and reattempt the upload, it works.
>>> 
>>> Second problem - once that file is uploaded, I get the error "Error
>>> creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination".  Again, if
>> I
>>> go to the thumbs directory, and ~/d/db directory has been created but
>> with
>>> the incorrect permissions. (I also tried safe mode, where a file is just
>>> uploaded directly to the /images directory, but no thumbnail was created
>> in
>>> the /images/thumbs directory).
>>> 
>>> SO ... does anyone know what script or configuration file in mediawiki
>> (or
>>> other processes) is allowing the directories to be created for file
>>> uploads, but would NOT be giving them the correct permissions for saving
>>> and creating thumbnails??
>>> 
>>> Mediawiki 1.26.0
>>> PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.14 (apache2handler)
>>> MySQL 5.5.46-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
>>> 
>>> I have searched many a forum on all of these errors and most seem to be
>>> centered around people not having the proper ownership/permissions for
>> the
>>> /images directory (and/or subdirectories). A few mentioned perhaps a
>>> problem with apparmor, but I have no clue as to what section(s) to edit
>> if
>>> so.
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance!
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