[pmwiki-users] Upgrade problem from 2.2.15 to current
Vince Administration
vadmin at math.uconn.edu
Sun Jun 26 14:54:04 CDT 2011
Petko,
Please forgive the top-posting, but after having done the diagnostics in the last paragraph, and using action=diag, it was clear that $WorkDir was set to "/wiki.d". Adding a line in config.php
$WorkDir = "$FarmD/wiki.d";
solved the problem. I must have missed having to add this, although I did not find it in the release notes.
Thanks for your help.
Vince
On Jun 25, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Petko Yotov wrote:
> On Saturday 25 June 2011 17:26:16, Vince Administration wrote :
>> On Jun 24, 2011, at 7:01 PM, Petko Yotov wrote:
>>> On Friday 24 June 2011 18:57:26, Vince Administration wrote :
>>>> The pages seem to display fine, but on a few pages (only a few pages)
>>>> near the bottom of the correctly displayed page is overlayed the
>>>> message
>>>>
>>>> PmWiki can't process your request. Permission denied in ...
>>>> PmWiki needs to have a writable wiki.d
>>>> Do this mkdir //wiki.d
>>> ...
>>> The slashes in "//wiki.d" seem to indicate that the server probably
>>> doesn't have "search" (also known as "scan" or "exec") permissions for
>>> the parent directories or for the wiki.d directory. In the latter case,
>>> a search or a pagelist in the wiki would return nothing.
>>
>> As I wrote before, the pages are working correctly. So I created a
>> directory /wiki.d in the root of the file system, the messages
>> disappeared, and in this directory I found two files. .notifylist
>> and .pageindex
>>
>> So these are the files that are causing the problem. They used to be
>> placed in wiki.d in the pmwiki tree, but something is messing the pointer
>> up. I don't know if pmwiki will read them from this location, and I cannot
>> leave them there, but at least I know part of the problem.
>>
>> Now where is the pointer being mucked up?
>
> If it shows, like you wrote before, two slashes with "//wiki.d", the only
> place I see where it could happen is on the line 554 of pmwiki.php, containing
> the function realpath(). This is from the PHP documentation:
>
> The running script must have executable permissions on all directories
> in the hierarchy, otherwise realpath() will return FALSE.
> http://php.net/realpath
>
> The message is printed by the function mkdirp() which tries to create a
> directory. This function is not called often - only when a file is being
> written: a wiki page, an uploaded file, a page cache.
>
>> What I guess I need to do is to create a new copy of pmwiki.php and put in
>> a traceback to try to see what file it is trying to write.
>
> Please do -- and dump all local variables from the function mkdirp() before
> the error message appears: $dir, $parent, $bdir, $perms.
>
> Petko
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