On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:37 PM, John Foster <jfoster81747(a)verizon.net>wrote;wrote: This generally indicates the /images directory is not writable by the webserver. Somebody should fix https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13812 :-)

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014, at 07:04 AM, John Foster wrote: Open perms (777) etc. are a security risk. 700 would be better. But what is : mwstore://local-backend/local-public/5/55 Looking at the "mwstore://" syntax, is this folder on a Windows share? Or samba? Is the wiki running on Windows or Linux? If it worked on the previous server - maybe the share is setup differently on the new server? Or the new server has different privileges to the share etc. Cheers, -- Alastair Sherringham http://www.sherringham.net

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014, at 07:42 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: Thanks. I started to suspect that when I read the referred to bug earlier ... -- Alastair Sherringham http://www.sherringham.net

On Sat, 2014-03-08 at 17:01 -0500, Benjamin Lees wrote: safe_mode and sql.safe_mode are disabled in all php.ini files. disk has over 800Gb of empty space. I have determined that this is related to some of my settings in LocalSettings.php RELATIVE to my website forwarding setup at Godaddy; I'll try to explain: Godaddy is set to forward to a virtualhost server on my office computer apache2 www.physicswiki.net is forwarded to beast.johnwfoster.com/pw which translates to: beast.johnwfoster.com/var/www/pw /pw is a symlink to the directory /home/myuser/mediawiki-1.22 so far so good; apache virtual host is set to handle that request as; Virtual Server Details Address Any Port 80 Document Root /var/www/pw Server Name www.physicswiki.net The snippet below is from my LocalSettings.php file & I think this is where the issue lies: $wgSitename = "PhysicsWiki"; ## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki; ## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this. ## For more information on customizing the URLs ## (like /w/index.php/Page_title to /wiki/Page_title) please see: ## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL $wgScriptPath = "/pw"; $wgScriptExtension = ".php"; ## The protocol and server name to use in fully-qualified URLs $wgServer = "http://localhost"; $wgCanonicalServer = 'http://physicswiki.net'; When any user logs in and clicks on the file upload link it simply doesn't load. Additionally there are several other SpecialPages links that do not load. BUT not all. It seems to be relative to using localhost as the $wgServer. I've tried changing it to several other settings, but then the entire site craps out. If I open a link using the address http://localhost/pw/index.php/Special:Upload the page opens and loads, BUT then I get the error message: Could not create directory "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/9/9b". In other sites that I've had this server on where the actual server was the same as $wgServer and the base directory for the site was /var/www/wikiname or if installed in /var/www with no linkages the site will work. This is why for several years I've tried to manage this site in a remotely hosted environment (I don't have the ability to set up static IP addressing on my office computer as Verizon will not allow it on residential systems.)I can NOT afford the expense of buying server time or buying a business site from Verizon; I was able to host it on CloudShards with NO issues, but they decided I was using too much CPU power & cut me off. Any Tips or ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks John