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authorJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2010-12-26 14:50:25 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2010-12-26 14:50:25 -0400
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@@ -7,3 +7,11 @@ I think I've triggered these problems by (not thinking and) running `ikiwiki --r
I don't know if there can be some lookup with `/etc/ikiwiki/wikilist`. Though shouldn't everything be under the `www-data` group in reality?
Also when I use `sudo ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup`, I think I create a ton of problems for myself since everything is created as the root user, right? And `/etc/ikiwiki/wikilist` doesn't seem to have the latest created wiki added. I have to reluctantly manually do this.
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+> You should never make files be owned by www-data user or group.
+> Ikiwiki is designed to run as a single user, which can just
+> be your login user; all files should be owned by that user, the
+> ikiwiki.cgi and other wrappers suid to that user. And then there are
+> never any permissions problems. --[[Joey]]
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+[[done]]