[pmwiki-users] Delete Uploaded File

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Nov 3 14:20:15 CST 2005


On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:32:17PM -0600, Wendell Brown wrote:
> Waylan Limberg wrote:
> >On 11/2/05, Allyen E. Wilson <awilson at allyenwilson.com> wrote:
> >  
> >>Thanks for the reply. I tried using ftp and got the response to the
> >>effect "file can not be deleted" so I tried to change permissions for
> >>the file and ftp said it could not change the permissions.
> >>    
> >Hmm, sounds like you might want to address the permissions issue with our 
> >host.
> >  
> The file is probably owned by the web server (technically it would be 
> the user the web server is running as, but the point is basically the 
> same).  You will either need to get an FTP account that has root access 
> (not too likely in a shared hosting environment) or you will need to get 
> the web server to delete the file.  

In general this isn't true.  PmWiki sets permissions on the files 
and directories involved to preserve the account owner's ability
to remove the file.

Pm




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