On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Massimo Canonico mex@di.unipmn.it wrote:

Hi, I got this error even if I followed the instruction on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Upload

First of all, that "public" means that wikimedia is expecting to use a directory called "public"? I have installed mediawiki from tgz file, without change the default values. How is it possible? If it is related to images directory, that error messagge should be fixed.

-- I set"755" for folder images: dcs:~/dcs.di.unipmn.it/mex/mediawiki $ ll | grep ima drwxr-xr-x  2 mex    mex      4096 2010-01-28 11:20 images

-- I have enabled upload: $wgEnableUploads  =  true;

-- I have checked Apache aliases

-- I have checked  file_uploads on php.ini

but still the same error message appear.

Any suggestion?

Thanks,  Massimo

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No, it doesn't mean you're supposed to create a directory named public--we're too paranoid to output the real path, but nobody's bothered fixing the message to say something less cryptic. I notice images is owned by mex. Who does apache run as?

-Chad

Massimo Canonico wrote:

On 01/28/2010 11:52 AM, Massimo Canonico wrote:

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Hi, I got this error even if I followed the instruction on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Upload

First of all, that "public" means that wikimedia is expecting to use a directory called "public"? I have installed mediawiki from tgz file, without change the default values. How is it possible? If it is related to images directory, that error messagge should be fixed.

-- I set"755" for folder images: dcs:~/dcs.di.unipmn.it/mex/mediawiki $ ll | grep ima drwxr-xr-x 2 mex mex 4096 2010-01-28 11:20 images

...

Any suggestion?

Thanks, Massimo

The user who run apache is "apache".

M

So php is trying to write as user apache but only user mex can write there? Change the permissions to fix that.