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+[[!meta date="2009-08-02 13:35:04 -0400"]]
+
 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 resulted in the following errors and a 404 page when the wiki tried to take me to the updated page.
@@ -8,3 +10,8 @@ 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. ;)
+
+> 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]]