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diff --git a/doc/tips/mathopd_permissions.mdwn b/doc/tips/mathopd_permissions.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c0425b9ca --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/tips/mathopd_permissions.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +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. + + append_indexes: cannot open .../[destdir]/[outputfile].html + open: Permission denied + +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]] |