I see. httpd.conf file has the user and group set to apache/apache. Simple resolution. I'm able to upload images.
Thanks John. Daryl On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 8:25 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > What username does the web service use? www? Whatever user account it uses > needs write permission to the images diectory. > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 9:20 AM Daryl Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I just recently migrated the wiki to a new environment. It was on a SLES > > 11 SP4 server running in a lampp and installed via Bitnami. Because of > > security issues, I built a new server, CentOS 7.x. This is a MediaWiki > > v1.25.2 environment. > > > > What should the owner and group be set to? Currently, they're set to > > root/daemon. That was what Bitnami had the owner and group set to in the > > initial installation. I copied the entire site to the new system > retaining > > the permissions. Now users are getting errors uploading images. > > > > The errors that users are receiving are similar to: > > > > [a10a3fd5] /mediawiki/Special:Upload MWException from line 1856 of > > /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/filerepo/file/LocalFile.php: Could not > > acquire lock for 'Andorra.png.' > > > > Research keeps pointing to permission issues, but the permissions are the > > same in both environments. > > > > I do have another environment that was set up on another server. It > still > > uses lampp, but it does not use Bitnami. After the experience with > > Bitnami, I decided to eliminate it, and just install MediaWiki directly. > > Anyway, the ownership and permissions are a bit different on that > > installation. Owner and group are both root, and the permission on the > > images directory are 777. I personally think that wide open permission > on > > the images directory is a bad idea and will not set those same > permissions > > on the new installation. But, I've read a number of times in different > > forums that was what resolved this for others having the same errors. > > > > I hesitate just changing the owner and group on the wiki to root/root and > > open up the images directory to the world. So, what are the best > > permission settings? What should the owner and group be, and what > > permissions does the images directory have to be? > > > > Thanks > > > > Daryl > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > To unsubscribe, go to: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
