On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Massimo Canonico <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I got this error even if I followed the instruction on > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Upload > > First of all, that "public" means that wikimedia is expecting to use a > directory called "public"? I have installed mediawiki from tgz file, > without change the default values. How is it possible? If it is related > to images directory, that error messagge should be fixed. > > -- I set"755" for folder images: > dcs:~/dcs.di.unipmn.it/mex/mediawiki $ ll | grep ima > drwxr-xr-x 2 mex mex 4096 2010-01-28 11:20 images > > -- I have enabled upload: > $wgEnableUploads = true; > > -- I have checked Apache aliases > > -- I have checked file_uploads on php.ini > > but still the same error message appear. > > Any suggestion? > > Thanks, > Massimo > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >
No, it doesn't mean you're supposed to create a directory named public--we're too paranoid to output the real path, but nobody's bothered fixing the message to say something less cryptic. I notice images is owned by mex. Who does apache run as? -Chad _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
