[Mediawiki-l] The upload directory (public) is not writable by the webserver

[Massimo Canonico]

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