[Mediawiki-l] Error: $wgProxyKey and /tmp

Richard Holton richholton at gmail.com
Sat Feb 19 03:54:09 UTC 2005


On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 03:59:28 +0100, Volker Huppert
<Mail at volker-huppert.de> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> when trying to set up a Wiki with MediaWiki 1.3.10 I get the following
> error message:
>  >>
> 
>     * Script URI path: /wiki
>       Warning: $wgProxyKey is insecure Can't find a writable temp
>       directory for the XHTML template. Check that the TMP environment
>       variable points to a writable directory, or that the default temp
>       dir (/tmp) exists and is writable.
> 
> <<
> 
> /tmp IS writeable (I even made it 777).
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance!
> 
> Volker
> _______________________________________________


Just guessing...IS there a TMP environment variable pointing at a
non-existent or non-writable directory?

-Rich



More information about the MediaWiki-l mailing list