adam overton (2008-12-22 13:00): > > hi, is this true? > > > Either way, don't set > > anything to 777. > > > b/c the installation instructions for pmwiki (http://pmwiki.org/wiki/ > PmWiki/Installation) say setting uploads and wiki.d to 777. should > they be 775 instead? just wondering if there's any consensus on this > before i go start twiddling, changing permissions... > > thx > adam
When starting with a clean PmWiki installation and navigating to pmwiki.php, one is greeted with this rather familiar error message: "PmWiki needs to have a writable $dir/ directory before it can continue." and an explanation how to set appropriate permissions for wiki.d/. Two suggestions are provided by Pm: 1. Chmod wiki.d to 777. 2. Chmod wiki.d to 2777 (use the setguid bit), reload and chmod it to whatever it was before. The second option is said to lead to "a slightly more secure installation", but it is only displayed (and usable) if PHP safemode is turned off. Refer to pmwiki.org for explanations: http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/FilePermissions Anyway, this kind of security (hiding of world writable directories to other users) should be provided by the ones selling shared hosting services. -- Rogutės _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users