[dokuwiki] Re: Cannot edit pages, only says Show Page

Hi  Werner,

Thanks for taking all the time with the detailed reply. I think in my
ignorance I led you astray. I have dokuwiki installed on a linux box running
mandrake. I have some mysql/php stuff on the web server there too. I thought
that meant lamp but it soumds like it does not. I am not very linux versant
at all as you may have gathered and did not follow a lot of your mail. I do
not know how to find out / set the user wwwrun and group www.

I installed dokuwiki under /var/www/html. From your mail I gathered the
recomendation was a reinstall. Here are the steps I took :
1. rm -rf dokuwiki
2. tar -xzvf dokuwiki-2006-11-06.tgz
3. mv dokuwiki-2006-11-06 dokuwiki
4. http://tyk/dokuwiki/install.php reported :

  - {DOCUMENT_ROOT}/dokuwiki/conf/ is not writable by DokuWiki. You need
  to fix the permission settings of this directory!
  - {DOCUMENT_ROOT}/dokuwiki/data is not writable by DokuWiki. You need
  to fix the permission settings of this directory!
  - {DOCUMENT_ROOT}/dokuwiki/data/pages is not writable by DokuWiki. You
  need to fix the permission settings of this directory!
  - {DOCUMENT_ROOT}/dokuwiki/data/attic is not writable by DokuWiki. You
  need to fix the permission settings of this directory!
  - {DOCUMENT_ROOT}/dokuwiki/data/media is not writable by DokuWiki. You
  need to fix the permission settings of this directory!
  - {DOCUMENT_ROOT}/dokuwiki/data/meta is not writable by DokuWiki. You
  need to fix the permission settings of this directory!
  - {DOCUMENT_ROOT}/dokuwiki/data/cache is not writable by DokuWiki. You
  need to fix the permission settings of this directory!
  - {DOCUMENT_ROOT}/dokuwiki/data/locks is not writable by DokuWiki. You
  need to fix the permission settings of this directory!

I want to get it right this time. Where is the script that Kite is talking
about?

Thanks a lot,

Tom.


On 22/11/06, Werner Flamme <werner.flamme@xxxxxx> wrote:



> I have a lamp setup on my server with madrake. I found httpd.conf in
> etc/httpd/conf and it had :

I use lampp on one laptop, too. When you use the standard setup of
lampp, it will install itself under /opt/lampp. Did you follow
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html when installing?

In /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf I read:
User wwwrun
Group www
If there is any config in /etc/httpd, it may not be used by lampp. Lampp
includes several additional apache config files in /opt/lampp/etc/extra

So when you have to have user wwwrun and group www to run apache with,
you must have the appropriate entries in /etc/password and /etc/group.
In my distro, I find in /etc/passwd:
wwwrun:x:30:8:WWW daemon apache:/var/lib/wwwrun:/bin/bash
and in /etc/group:
www:x:8:
So I have both user and group apache runs with. If you do not have them,
add those lines (best with the commands useradd / groupadd) and start
apache. It will not start when the given user does not exist. Be sure to
stop all apache processes first - maybe you installed apache from your
distro, and now your distro's apache fights with lampps' apache who may
serve port 80 ;-) When you use lampp, you better uninstall apache,
mysql, php and the other packages included in xampp because it makes no
sense to have them installed twice - just remember the configuring fuzz
;-)

First try to access your web server's start page, then let's look
further ;-)

Where did you install DokuWiki? If it is in
/home/tom/public_html/dokuwiki, you can access it via
http://localhost/~tom/dokuwiki/. When it's outside your personal
public_html, you have to edit /opt/lampp/etc/extras/httpd-userdir.conf
accordingly. Or you put in in /opt/lampp/htdocs/dokuwiki, then you can
access it via http://localhost/dokuwiki/.

Now the rights. Since you want to edit the contents of your wiki via
browser, your web server (not you) needs write access to all the files.
That is where the chown and chmod commands kick in - I don't want to
repeat them now ;-)

When you make sure the only apache on your machine is the one in lampp
plus you put the dokuwiki installation in one of the 2 places I
mentioned above, you should have at least read access up to here.

HTH
Werner

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