Doesn't the "normal" way force you to pick a path and save every time? Your firefox path has to be read/writeable. If you restored your old FF profiles, it might be pointing to a directory that you can't currently write to. What is your default download path in FF? If it's not under /var... then you have to set it.
Why not try tiddlyfox and see what happens? Still guessing, but I think when the browser runs it runs with reduced rights as a security measure (even if you launch as root). After launching with sudo, and using ps aux, I see that my firefox is still running as my base user. There's probably a more scientific way to force FF to use root's rights. Mark On Friday, January 15, 2016 at 9:28:54 AM UTC-8, Alex S. Garcia wrote: > > On Friday, January 15, 2016 08:42:59 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki wrote: > > > Are you using tiddlyfox? > > > > Nope. > > > > > If not, how are you saving? > > > > Just the 'normal' way, ie. clicking 'save changes' under 'admin tools' in > the sidepanel, while the file is loaded from /var/www/html. > > > > > If you launch your browser as root, then can you save? > > > > Ah, good question. Hadn't tried that. Just did now. And, interestingly > enough, it does NOT work as root either. I get the same error as with my > user, ie: > > > > "It's not possible to save changes. Possible reasons include: > > - your browser doesn't support saving (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari > and Opera all work if properly configured) > > - the pathname to your TiddlyWiki file contains illegal characters > > - the TiddlyWiki HTML file has been moved or renamed" > > > > > I'm guessing that your plugin can't/won't navigate those directories > > > owned by root. > > > > But I'm *not* using a plugin in this specific case, only TW's internal > functionality to 'save changes'. > > > > OTOH, I *do* use a plugin when I work remotely, and THAT works just fine!? > Weird, isn't it? The plugin can get access but not the file itself... > > > > What user would the system see trying to save the file locally? Would it > be coming from my user, from apache, or something else? Makes me wonder. > > > > And what about the plugin, for that matter, shouldn't my computer see it > coming from the same user?? If so, saving should not be possible via the > plugin either... unless it's not a permissions issue, but then what? > *baffled* > > > > > As a workaround, can you edit on your server as > > > http://localhost...tw.html ? > > > > Well, yes, it would then just use that TW plugin in that case and I'd have > to click "save to web". Saving from my laptop while connecting remotely > also works fine for the same reason, since it would also be using the > plugin. > > > > It just puzzles me to no end that I can't do a normal local save... that > just doesn't sound right :-o > > > > > > > > Alex. > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > http://www.alexsgarcia.com/ > > http://www.myspace.com/asglyrics > > Music Videos : http://mvdbase.com [database] > > http://www.freelists.org/list/mv [mailing-list] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/7b158ce1-6f7f-41ee-a8dc-c6fb2427b705%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
