[pmwiki-users] Question about wikidir.d

[Sandy]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> By "edit the file /wikilib.d/PmWiki/Installation", do you mean that
> you're editing the file directly?  Or did you really mean to say you
> were editing the PmWiki.Installation page via ?action=edit ?

via ?action=edit .


> 
> Your understanding of how things are supposed to work is correct --
> PmWiki doesn't write to files in the wikilib.d/ directory, but
> instead creates a new copy of the page in wiki.d/ (and uses that
> in preference to the wikilib.d/ page).  So, if PmWiki is modifying
> the file in wikilib.d/ somehow, then yes there's something odd
> happening here.
> 
>> When I delete the AuthUser lines and repeated the experiment, a file was 
>> created in wiki.d as expected.
>>
>> Why would the behaviour be different?
> 
> I don't know -- it shouldn't be any different.  There must be
> something else going on here.  I can set up a test on pmwiki.org
> if it would help.

I'll do a fresh download to local next week and try again. (Very hectic 
week.)

Sandy