[Mediawiki-l] Upload error - non-existent directory?

[Brion Vibber]

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Adam Huffman wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Brion Vibber wrote:
> 
>> Adam Huffman wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> A user of one of the wikis I administer has reported the following error
>>> when trying to upload a PDF file:
>>>
>>> Internal Error:  Could not rename file "/tmp/phpO39LcP" to
>>> "public/f/fb/AmitmcfserumQC.pdf
>>>
>>>
>>> The odd thing is that the 'public' directory doesn't exist.
>> That would be a reference to your 'images' directory.
>>
> 
> I should have been clearer.  I know it's a reference to the 'images'
> directory.  What I meant was that there's no 'public' subdirectory of
> 'images'.  I can't see any such subdirectory on the other wikis here,
> either.

'public' in this message is an internal system path referring to
$wgUploadDirectory, which *is* the 'images' directory in your wiki
folder unless you have changed it from the defaults in LocalSettings.php.

Please put 'public' away from your mind and examine the ownership and
permissions on:

* $IP/images
* $IP/images/f
* $IP/images/f/fb
* /tmp'

as well as the security settings on PHP (safe_mode? open_basedir? etc)

- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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