[dokuwiki] Re: Installing Dokuwiki on hosted webspace
- From: "J.L. Coenders" <dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:09:46 +0100
> > > This should work with setting
> > >
> > > $conf['savedir'] = '/path/to/webspace/data';
> >
> > I have tried the first option, using the full path to the root (/). It
> > works if I put the dokuwiki data directory anywhere in the www
> > directory, but if I try moving it to the webserver data directory, I
> > keep getting:
> >
> > DokuWiki Setup Error
> >
> > The datadir does not exist, isn't accessable or writable. Check your
> > config and permission settings!
> >
> > Any idea what might cause this? Could it be that dokuwiki is unable to
> > access this webserver data directory because it is not viewable from
> > the webserver?
>
> Hmm... no DokuWiki does not access those files through HTTP but through
> the file system. It could be that there is some PHP restriction set up
> which denies access to this directory. But first make sure you give
> those directories write access for the webserver user!
Even with permissions to 777 it still does not work, while I use this
directory quite often in my own scripts to read and write data from/to. I'll
mail support and try to find out what they have to say about it.
> > Another thing I have noticed that in the cache directory dokuwiki uses
> > the standard webserver user to write files. However, because I do not
> > have access to this user (only the host has access to this) I am
> > unable to delete these files.
> > Do you know how to change dokuwiki to write the files as a different
> > uses/group?
>
> You can't change this. The webserver runs as an unprivileged user so it
> can't change the ownership of those files. However you can loosen the
> permissions to let other users write (delete) those files.
You mean with umask and dmask?
Jeroen
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