[pmwiki-users] cannot acquire lockfile

[Tegan Dowling]

On 10/11/06, Florian Fischer <Flori-Fischer at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i seperated my pmwiki in a stable official version and a testing version for new addons. Therefore i copied the stable version to a new folder on my server. loading this page i get the message
>
> Warning: fopen(wiki.d/.flock): failed to open stream: Keine Berechtigung in /home/u0027084302/public_html/elrex_redaktion/pmwiki.php on line 420
>
> PmWiki can't process your request
> Cannot acquire lockfile
>
> We are sorry for any inconvenience.
>
>
> Warning: fopen(wiki.d/.flock): failed to open stream: Keine Berechtigung in /home/u0027084302/public_html/elrex_redaktion/pmwiki.php on line 420
>
> PmWiki can't process your request
> Cannot acquire lockfile
>
> We are sorry for any inconvenience.
>
> Why is that? and what does wiki.d/.flock do? How can i solve the problem?

Hi, Florian:

The wiki needs to create each .flock file itself.  Delete the one
that's in the wiki.d folder.  That's all there should be to it.  If
there is another issue, double-check to confirm the permissions
(chmod) for the wiki.d folder are set to 777.