What username does the web service use? www? Whatever user account it uses needs write permission to the images diectory.
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 9:20 AM Daryl Rose <rosed...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just recently migrated the wiki to a new environment. It was on a SLES > 11 SP4 server running in a lampp and installed via Bitnami. Because of > security issues, I built a new server, CentOS 7.x. This is a MediaWiki > v1.25.2 environment. > > What should the owner and group be set to? Currently, they're set to > root/daemon. That was what Bitnami had the owner and group set to in the > initial installation. I copied the entire site to the new system retaining > the permissions. Now users are getting errors uploading images. > > The errors that users are receiving are similar to: > > [a10a3fd5] /mediawiki/Special:Upload MWException from line 1856 of > /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/filerepo/file/LocalFile.php: Could not > acquire lock for 'Andorra.png.' > > Research keeps pointing to permission issues, but the permissions are the > same in both environments. > > I do have another environment that was set up on another server. It still > uses lampp, but it does not use Bitnami. After the experience with > Bitnami, I decided to eliminate it, and just install MediaWiki directly. > Anyway, the ownership and permissions are a bit different on that > installation. Owner and group are both root, and the permission on the > images directory are 777. I personally think that wide open permission on > the images directory is a bad idea and will not set those same permissions > on the new installation. But, I've read a number of times in different > forums that was what resolved this for others having the same errors. > > I hesitate just changing the owner and group on the wiki to root/root and > open up the images directory to the world. So, what are the best > permission settings? What should the owner and group be, and what > permissions does the images directory have to be? > > Thanks > > Daryl > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
