[dokuwiki] Re: problems with dokuwiki on webfaction

  • From: Jan Decaluwe <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:47:50 +0200

Andreas Gohr wrote:
I'm not sure i understand what your hoster did in the past and what it is
doing now.
In the recent past things worked just as expected.

According to webfaction, the new php setup fixes a security issue:
   http://statusblog.webfaction.com/new-php-setup

What they describe there is all very reasonable and should in fact
make live quite a bit easier with DokuWiki. I don't see anything that
would explain problems with fetch.php

But at the same time, they changed the way non-php files are served;
those files go their main apache server that doesn't do php, to serve
them "as quickly as possible".

That's fine too, because non-PHP files should always be delivered by
Apache. Files in DokuWiki are delivered by fetch.php which is a PHP
script. If that doesn't work anymore it means they use a very messed
up method of deciding if a file is a PHP file or not.

Ok. To be sure, I have tested my dokuwiki sites again. I can confirm
that currently I need the rewriting rules from my original post to make
things work (as they suggested when I asked about it.)

Strangely enough, now even the resized images work fine with the
rewriting rules as I posted. Seems things are in flux - I'll now
wait a bit to see what happens next :-)

(BTW, the new setup also changes file ownership policy;
on running wiki's this may result in scary error messages.
I had to remove the cache manually to solve this.)

They say that in the link you mentioned above. But if you get errors
it means they did not change file ownership as they said they would.

Correct. I actually had to enter a support ticket to have them
change the file ownership for me. However they did now and the
error messages are gone.

Jan

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