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[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / tips / mathopd_permissions.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/tips/mathopd_permissions.mdwn b/doc/tips/mathopd_permissions.mdwn
index 52a8767cc6a572205db52f6516b84fcaba124eae..c0425b9caa6dee430d45cd1380d34e3cfa07adb6 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/tips/mathopd_permissions.mdwn
+++ b/doc/tips/mathopd_permissions.mdwn
@@ -8,3 +8,8 @@ With `Umask 026` in mathopd.conf, editing pages resulted in the following errors
 With `Umask 022` in mathopd.conf, editing pages works.
 
 Hopefully this prevents someone else from spending ~2 hours figuring out why this wouldn't work. ;)
 With `Umask 022` in mathopd.conf, editing pages works.
 
 Hopefully this prevents someone else from spending ~2 hours figuring out why this wouldn't work. ;)

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+> More generally, if your web server uses a nonstandard umask
+> or you're getting permissions related problems in the cgi log
+> when using ikiwiki, you can force ikiwiki to use a sane umask
+> via the `umask` setting in ikiwiki's own setup file. --[[Joey]]