On 10/06/05, Arthur Guy arthur@astarsolutions.co.uk wrote:
I have got Media Wiki installed and working on an IIS server, today I decided to take a look at the file permissions for the instillation and I found that the everyone group had full permission, I removed this and added IIS User giving it read permission; unfortunately the site now doesn't work when you try and edit a page and error is returned.
Well, I have no knowledge of IIS and suchlike, so I may not be much help, but: * is there such a thing as an "execute" permission, like there would be on *nix? * the page editting shouldn't cause anything to be written to the file system, only to the MySQL database; the only directory that needs to be writable is the "images" one, IIRC (some versions try to compile the skin template on first run and save that somewhere, but I forget where and recent versions don't bother with this). * the other way editting would be different from viewing is caches of various sorts - are you sure the wiki can actually output fresh content if you by-pass your browser cache etc?
In fact, perhaps the most helpful thing (which people so rarely think to do) would be to say exactly *what* error is returned, in case someone on the list knows what it means, or can deduce.