That for for an IT specialist to look at. 2013/1/5, bpabbott <bpabb...@mac.com>: > I'm attempting my first MediaWiki (1.17) install on MacOS X using Macports > for PHP, MySQL and Apache. > > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/MAMP > > My intent is to use a wiki documenting personal projects, and placed it in > ~/Sites/mediawiki. My LocalSettings.php file contains the definition > below. > > $wgScriptPath = "/~bpabbott/mediawiki"; > > The absolute path is /Users/bpabbott/Sites/mediawiki > > Everything appeared to be ok, until I tried to enable LaTeX to be used to > render equations. I made the changes below to my LocalSettings.php. > > $wgEnableUploads = true; > > ## Upload paths. May want other Directories for additional wikis > $wgUploadPath = "$wgScriptPath/images"; > $wgUploadDirectory = "$wgScriptPath/images"; > > ## If you have the appropriate support software installed > ## you can enable inline LaTeX equations: > $wgUseTeX = true; > > ## Setup the Math directories > $wgMathPath = "{$wgUploadPath}/math"; > $wgMathDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/math"; > $wgTmpDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/tmp"; > > To help with debugging, I also did the unwise thing below. > > mkdir ~/Sites/mediawiki/images/math > mkdir ~/Sites/mediawiki/images/tmp > $ chmod 777 ~/Sites/mediawiki/images/math > $ chmod 777 ~/Sites/mediawiki/images/tmp > > Even with no security, when I attempt to include an equation on a page, I > encounter the error below (while in preview) > > WARNING: wfMkdirParents: failed to mkdir "/~bpabbott/mediawiki/images/tmp" > modes 511 in /Users/bpabbott/Sites/mediawiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php > on > line 2324. > > The wfMakeParents function in my GlobalFunctions.php, is below. > > 2292 /** > 2293 * Make directory, and make all parent directories if they don't exist > 2294 * > 2295 * @param $dir String: full path to directory to create > 2296 * @param $mode Integer: chmod value to use, default is > $wgDirectoryMode > 2297 * @param $caller String: optional caller param for debugging. > 2298 * @return bool > 2299 */ > 2300 function wfMkdirParents( $dir, $mode = null, $caller = null ) { > 2301 global $wgDirectoryMode; > 2302 > 2303 if ( !is_null( $caller ) ) { > 2304 wfDebug( "$caller: called wfMkdirParents($dir)" ); > 2305 } > 2306 > 2307 if( strval( $dir ) === || file_exists( $dir ) ) { > 2308 return true; > 2309 } > 2310 > 2311 $dir = str_replace( array( '\\', '/' ), DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $dir ); > 2312 > 2313 if ( is_null( $mode ) ) { > 2314 $mode = $wgDirectoryMode; > 2315 } > 2316 > 2317 // Turn off the normal warning, we're doing our own below > 2318 wfSuppressWarnings(); > 2319 $ok = mkdir( $dir, $mode, true ); // PHP5 <3 > 2320 wfRestoreWarnings(); > 2321 > 2322 if( !$ok ) { > 2323 // PHP doesn't report the path in its warning message, so add our > own to aid in diagnosis. > 2324 trigger_error( __FUNCTION__ . ": failed to mkdir \"$dir\" mode > $mode", E_USER_WARNING ); > 2325 } > 2326 return $ok; > 2327 } > > It appears that PHP is not able to make sense of "/~bpabbott" ... which > Mediawiki interprets as "/Users/bpabbott/Sites" (?) ... I tried using an > absolute path for $wgScriptPath, but that breaks the wiki. > > Any ideas? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/math-results-in-wfMkdirParents-failed-to-mkdir-tp4992898.html > Sent from the English Wikipedia mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >
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