Re: [pmwiki-users] Permissions puzzle

[Dr Fred C]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:54:01AM -0400, Henrik wrote: I use PmWiki for buckets of websites on a single Unix webserver account. All was going well until my hosting company upgraded my shared hosting server to PHP 5.2.1. A good thing to upgrade, but all of a sudden all my wikis broke, with "unable to obtain .flock file" (among other things). After several days of (in the end) pointless dialog with my host service company (webserve.ca), I ended up having to change rights on all wiki.d and uploads directories from 755 to 777. I presume this means that whereas PHP previously had owner rights, it now has none, and therefore needs public access to write directories. Does anyone know where to look for a configuration change on my host that would make this happen? I'm not sure that a PHP configuration change alone can explain the entire issue. It would help to know the ownerships for files created before the change versus the ownerships of the files being created after the change -- I suspect that the userid also changed in the process somewhere. Were the directories really 755 permissions (as opposed to 775) before the upgrade occurred? If the directories were 755 and the files created by PmWiki were 644, that would imply that previous PmWiki (and PHP) were running under your userid instead of the "nobody" or "www" user. FYI, this case seems remarkably like what recently happened to me when I recently migrated a couple wikis to a new host.  I had to go back and reset all of the permissions in multiple wikis.   Perhaps when they upgraded, everything was also transferred to a new server, and, in the process, the directory settings were also changed? Also, as part of this migration, I moved a Gallery (v1.5) to the new hos.  While setting up in the Gallery config program, a dialog box came up with some comment about how the host server has some sort of php server permissions setting that might mess things up, but the config program would try to "fix it".  Since the Gallery runs, I assumed that the config program resolved the permissions setting problem.   Sorry about being vague, but since the config program self corrected the problem without my intervention, all I remember was some warning dialog box popping up with a click to continue button. -- Always, Dr Fred C [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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