[pmwiki-users] pagelist error msg due to permissions

[rogutes at googlemail.com]

Rogutės Sparnuotos (2011-07-05 13:53):
> adam overton (2011-07-05 03:10):
> > hi y'all
> <snip> 
> > B. my host changing some settings on their server.
> > 
> > the problem seems to be solved by changing the permissions of wiki.d from 755 to 777.
> > is that a security risk? or is that alright? i had had most folders set to 755 before, and everything seemed to be working fine for quite some time, but now something has changed.
> 
> PmWiki didn't change in this regard, so it's B.
> Re. security, you should ask your host what changes it has done to its web
> server setup, because the web server (PHP) could write to 0755 directories
> and now it can't. From a paranoid perspective, it is a security risk, but
> if their setup is right, having a 0777 wiki.d might be ok.
> 
> P.S. Was it really 0755 before? Or 2755?

Forgot to look into the error messages... The first question should've
been this: can you edit and delete pages from PmWiki?

And it looks like the error messages seem to show that PmWiki could better
at error handling.

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--  Rogutės Sparnuotos