[pmwiki-users] Upgrading & switching sites

Tegan Dowling tmdowling at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 10:05:20 CDT 2006


On 7/17/06, Donald Z. Osborn <dzosborn at gmail.com> wrote:
> A couple of months ago I posted a question re upgrading and transferring
> PmWiki and got some helpful replies. In the end I upgraded on the old site
> as some suggested with no problem (just some questions re approve sites,
> already answered) and only recently have attempted the transfer. What I'm
> doing is moving the wiki to a new account (with new URL) on the same server.
>
> What I just tried is to copy the entire set of files from the original
> location to the new location. This shortcut seemed to make sense, although I
> figured there would probably be some small issues that would cause a
> problem. Actually the process went well and the wiki is readable on the new
> site.
>
> However... there is a set of problems:
> 1. The "View  Edit  History  Print " options normally near the top right on
> each page are not there
>
> 2. The following message appears at the bottom -
> Warning: fopen( wiki.d/.flock): failed to open stream: Permission denied in
> /home/httpd/vhosts/[URL, path & file here, for each respective page] on line
> 401
> PmWiki can't process your request
> Cannot acquire lockfile
> We are sorry for any inconvenience
>
> 3. A similar message to #2 is generated if I click on "Edit" or "Search" at
> the bottom of each page.
>
> Is this a simple matter of making a change to line 401? (If so, where? - it
> does not appear to be in the config file)? Or do I have to go through some
> more elaborate penance?

First things to do:
1) Make sure the new wiki.d folder has most-liberal permissions ("777"), and
2) Delete the .flock file from your new wiki.d folder - the wiki will
create a new one.

May not be the fix you need, but won't do any harm.

HTH




More information about the pmwiki-users mailing list