[dokuwiki] Re: Broken wiki, new admin
- From: Joshua Evans <jlevans14@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:35:59 -0400
Thanks! Ok, the scripts run correctly and it looks like our group and owner
return correct. I tried the chgrp to httpd and I get back this:
chgrp: httpd: Invalid argument
Same with apache. It works fine with our owner name in there. Still getting
the same error on the admin controls.
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Andreas-Johann Ulvestad <aj@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 13:07 -0400, Joshua Evans wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Andreas-Johann Ulvestad <aj@xxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 12:35 -0400, Joshua Evans wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I'm rather new to admin for the wiki, I have an issue that I
> > have no
> > > idea how to resolve, or really, even what the problem is to
> > begin
> > > with. In my admin user controls, I can no longer edit user
> > groups the
> > > icon is grayed out. Also, when I try to change access
> > control for a
> > > particular page, I get the following error:
> > >
> > > Writing /groups/labs/idea/public_html/wiki/conf/acl.auth.php
> > failed
> >
> >
> > It seems that the web server can't access the specified file
> > (...acl.auth.php) for writing. Depending on your system's
> > configuration,
> > check for write access for httpd/apache or similar.
> >
> > How would I check for access? I use putty to run the parse files for
> > adding/removing users, I'm assuming all this needs to be done through
> > the hosting server. Thanks!
> >
>
> I would suggest to connect to the server (eg through putty or another
> ssh client), change directory
> (cd /groups/labs/idea/public_html/wiki/conf) and then run ls -l
> acl.auth.php.
>
> You should get something similar to:
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 apache apache 229 2010-07-20 15:35 acl.auth.php
>
> In this instance, the file is owned by the user apache and group apache,
> so everything is in order (apache is the web server on this system). You
> should make sure that the file has group ownership corresponding to your
> web server. Probably the correct command should be
> chgrp apache acl.auth.php
> OR
> chgrp httpd acl.auth.php
>
> And then making sure that the group (apache or httpd) can write to the
> file, with the command:
> chmod g+w acl.auth.php
>
> Please note, the group names I use here are just examples, and might
> work on something like 60-70% of regular linux installations. It might
> work for you, it might not.
>
> Hope you succeed :-).
>
>
>
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University of Kentucky
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