[Pmwiki-users] Re: File permissions/ownership problem

[Patrick R. Michaud]

If you take the approach I described below, don't forget to remove
the script when you're finished.  Otherwise someone might re-execute
the script and overwrite all of the changes made since you executed
it the first time.  (This is partly why PmWiki doesn't provide this
script by default.)

I may play with the idea of creating an admin.php script that
handles most of the administrative options that people encounter,
such as recovering files from an old wiki.d directory, renaming
pages, moving pages to other groups, etc.  This script would require
explicit enabling in local.php and be password protected via the
admin password.

Pm


On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 10:55:56AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 
> 1. Write a restore script that will run from the web server to copy the 
>    files from your old wiki.d directory into your new one.  To do this:
>       - rename your old wiki.d to oldwiki.d
>       - change permissions on your pmwiki directory to 2777
>       - write a php script as follows:
> 	   <?php
> 		mkdir("wiki.d");
> 		umask(002);
> 		system("/bin/cp oldwiki.d/* wiki.d");
> 	   ?>