On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Petko Yotov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 01 December 2011 19:35:18, Arash Ostadzadeh wrote : >> After extracting the PmWiki archive >> to the "public_html" folder on the server, and creating the "wiki.d" >> folder manually (PmWiki was not able to create it) and changing the >> attributes to enable world write access, pmwiki.php nags with the >> following message: >> >> PmWiki can't process your request >> Cannot acquire lockfile >> We are sorry for any inconvenience. > > Make sure you set the attributes of wiki.d "recursively". In my KDE file > manager I need to check "Apply changes to all subfolders and their contents"; > in a terminal, I need to enter something like: > > chmod --recursive 777 wiki.d >
Thanks for your reply Petko, I checked with "chmod -R 777 wiki.d" still the same problem. Does it make any difference in case of the initial creation of the directory when it is actually empty? > P.S. I assume that you are not on a read-only filesystem, and it is not full > but has some empty space. :-) I am not an experienced user with Linux and this may look very naive, but, could it be that on the web server a security rule is placed that prevent any kind of write access to my public_html directory by the user running the webserver (Apache)? Probably the php script is run by the webserver (not quite sure but this is most probably the 'nobody' user, right?! ) and despite my granted write access for everyone, that particular user which runs the webserver can not write at all. how can I check this? Actually when I log in to any machine on our network I am able to transfer files to my public_html via my own user and there is no restriction, however, I am not sure if the pmwiki later can write to my public_html via the webserver... if this is the case, I can not use PmWiki at all, right?! Any solution that I can check this? thanks in advance for your help. -Arash _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
