more info: indeed, i've confirmed that it's a problem with ownership. i experimented by getting rid of the contents of wiki.d altogether, and started creating files from scratch via the wiki, with no problems at all. but as soon as i drag a copy of a pre-existing page in there and try to save it, i get permission denied messages.
how do other people get around this? can't one quickly copy one's site into a directory and be up and running in seconds? all the important stuff is in my wonderfully customized Site.___ files. do i need to ask my serverhost to copy them for me? thanks, adam On 26 Mar 2011, at 9:06 PM, adam overton wrote: > hi > i'm trying to create a new site hosted on the same server as my previous one. > for the new site, i basically just want to quickly duplicate the pmwiki > package from my customized main site, and use that as the template. to do > this, i simply downloaded all my pmwiki files for the old site via ftp onto > my desktop, and then reuploaded them into the new directory. > > things are almost working at this point, and permissions for directories seem > to be fine, but when i try to open and save any pages that already existed on > the previous site, like MyGroup.index, i get permission errors, for instance: > > Warning: fopen(wiki.d/MyGroup/MyGroup.index,new) [function.fopen]: failed to > open stream: Permission denied in /home/user/public_html/ssb/pmwiki.php on > line 971 ... > > when i make new pages from scratch, i don't get the same errors (except for > errors with AllRecentChanges). > i think this is due to the fact that most of the pages on my previous > distribution have 99:99 as the owner, but once they got downloaded to my > computer, they were reassigned the owner of the cpu. > > does anyone have any tips for quickly and easily duplicating files from a > site so that permissions are preserved? or for correcting this quickly and > easily? the ftp client i use allows me to change permissions, but not owners, > of files. i know i could probably remove the offending files, create them > from within pmwiki, and then just copy and paste in the edit window, but that > will take awhile. > > thanks, > adam _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
