X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/595c1d2a742a141db797a80b9643aa364e66ee8a..cf0166347c1b017bba4f99f9e6bffa2eb221d933:/doc/tips/mathopd_permissions.mdwn diff --git a/doc/tips/mathopd_permissions.mdwn b/doc/tips/mathopd_permissions.mdwn index 52a8767cc..04a9bca77 100644 --- a/doc/tips/mathopd_permissions.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/mathopd_permissions.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +[[!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]]