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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 ebcff995e40a9c2dec40134cfbc9462be8d2b8aa..c0425b9caa6dee430d45cd1380d34e3cfa07adb6 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/tips/mathopd_permissions.mdwn
+++ b/doc/tips/mathopd_permissions.mdwn
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 When using [mathopd](http://www.mathopd.org) to serve ikiwiki, be careful of your Umask settings in the mathopd.conf.
 
-With `Umask 026` in mathopd.conf, editing pages would result in the following errors and a 404 page when the wiki tried to take me to the updated page.
+With `Umask 026` in mathopd.conf, editing pages resulted in the following errors and a 404 page when the wiki tried to take me to the updated page.
 
     append_indexes: cannot open .../[destdir]/[outputfile].html
     open: Permission denied
@@ -8,3 +8,8 @@ With `Umask 026` in mathopd.conf, editing pages would result in the following er
 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. ;)
+
+> 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]]