[pmwiki-users] chmod difficulties on shared host new installation

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:22:49AM -0500, peter vandermeer wrote:
> Version: 2.0b26
> OS: FreeBSD? 4.9-RELEASE-p11
> PHP 4.3.8
> At a shared Web Hosting Service
> 
> This is my first trial installation of pmwiki, so sorry for the newbie
> question. When I upload the pmwiki dir to the public_html file and
> chmod to 777, the default installation comes up, wiki.d is made. All
> is well, can add to and modify at will. When I chmod back to 755 (or
> just the wiki.d and config to 666), I get the error " Warning:
> fopen(wiki.d/.flock): failed to open stream: Permission denied in
> /home/*****/public_html/*****/pmwiki.php on line 344 PmWiki can't
> process your request


Sounds like a safe_mode problem.  Try creating the wiki.d directory
manually (and give it 777 permissions).

Pm