[pmwiki-users] pagelist error msg due to permissions

Tue Jul 5 15:09:13 CDT 2011

hi Rogut
thanks for the reply
i'll check with my host to see if anything changed. thanks.

my permissions before were definitely 0755, not 2755.
and yes, my pages are still writable. it seems like the new setttings are only causing problems with .files like .pageindex (and another .file for another recipe).

so for now, looking back in the documentation online for setup, i'm seeing that 777 seems to be the standard for setting up wiki.d; if so, i'm just not sure how mine ended up at 755. anyways, unless someone else votes for 755, i'll leave mine now at 777.

thanks,
adam

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> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 03:10:05 -0700
> From: adam overton <a at plus1plus1plus.org>
> To: pmwiki-users <pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com>
> Subject: [pmwiki-users] pagelist error msg due to permissions
> Message-ID: <13F46B24-22D0-48F9-AEB5-E74DAE7EFE69 at plus1plus1plus.org>
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> hi y'all
> i'm now getting the following msg on any page with a pagelist:
> 
> 
> Warning: fopen(wiki.d/.pageindex,new) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/user/public_html/wiki/scripts/pagelist.php on line 755
> Warning: fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/user/public_html/wiki/scripts/pagelist.php on line 767
> Warning: fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/user/public_html/wiki/scripts/pagelist.php on line 767
> Warning: fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/user/public_html/wiki/scripts/pagelist.php on line 781
> 
> ... ad infinitum ... then:
> 
> Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/user/public_html/wiki/scripts/pagelist.php on line 785
> Warning: unlink(wiki.d/.pageindex) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in /home/user/public_html/wiki/scripts/pagelist.php on line 786
> Warning: rename(wiki.d/.pageindex,new,wiki.d/.pageindex) [function.rename]: No such file or directory in /home/user/public_html/wiki/scripts/pagelist.php on line 787
> 
> 
> i'm not sure whether this is being caused by:
> A. having just updated to the latest pmwiki version a couple weeks ago (after having not updated in awhile)
> or
> 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.
> 
> thanks,
> adam
> 
> 
> (ps - sorry if this has been covered already in a previous post - the gmane search feature seems to be down right now)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 13:53:54 +0300
> From: Rogut?s Sparnuotos <rogutes at googlemail.com>
> To: pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com
> Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] pagelist error msg due to permissions
> Message-ID: <20110705105354.GA9667 at urvas>
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> 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?
> 
> -- 
> --  Rogut?s Sparnuotos
> 
> 
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> Message: 9
> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 14:00:51 +0300
> From: rogutes at googlemail.com
> To: pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com
> Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] pagelist error msg due to permissions
> Message-ID: <20110705110051.GA10333 at urvas>
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> Rogut?s 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.
> 
> -- 
> --  Rogut?s Sparnuotos
> 
> 
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> Message: 10
> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 13:19:24 +0200
> From: "kirpi at kirpi.it" <kirpi at kirpi.it>
> To: PmWiki Users <pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com>, DaveG
> 	<pmwiki at solidgone.com>
> Subject: [pmwiki-users] BlogIt Vulnerability
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> Thank you twice, Dave: for your prompt fix, and also for having mailed
> me off-list (I was not aware of the problem yet).
> 
> Luigi
> 
> 
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> Message: 11
> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:20:06 +0200
> From: Dominique Faure <dominique.faure at gmail.com>
> To: Chris Cox <ccox at endlessnow.com>
> Cc: pmwiki users <pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com>
> Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] I want a pagelist template like the
> 	oneline sample, but NO spaces between entries...help
> Message-ID:
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>> Like the subject says. ?I desire something like the #oneline fmt example in
>> the pagelist samples, but I do NOT want intervening spaces in the result.
>> ?Even if I specify a backslash, I end up with a space between the items.
>> ?Possible to eliminate without writing some custom markup expression?
> 
> Hi,
> According to this test:
> 
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/OneLinePagelist
> 
> it seems to work as expected, and even more since Camel case
> concatenated strings are recognized as potential links.
> 
> -- 
> Dominique
> 
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