X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/ba682e0f9a55ffd74584aa3b8abb0087c7762317..9e059c9709412c8e94d7b396bbc6af0ba2124f81:/doc/forum/Cannot_write_to_commitlock.mdwn

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@@ -14,4 +14,15 @@ Now ~/ianbarton/.ikiwiki exists and is owned and writable by me. I have tried to
 
 Ian.
 
+> I'm guessing that this is some kind of permissions problem,
+> and that the error message is just being misleading. 
+> 
+> When you push the changes to the server, what user is
+> git logging into the server as? If that user is different
+> than `ian` (possibly due to using git-daemon?), the post-commit
+> wrapper needs to be setuid to `ian`. This ensures that ikiwiki
+> runs as you and can see and write to the files. --[[Joey]] 
 
+The user is logging as ian, the same user as the laptop. I can push and pull git repos on the same server owned by the same user via ssh with no problem. I have deleted and re-started from scratch several times. However, for my use case I think it's simpler to keep the repo on my local computer and just rsync the web pages to the server.
+
+Ian.