I haven't run SLES in a few years, but your issue might be apparmor preventing writes in the web root. Is youre webserver listed when you run aa-status?
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Katharina Wolkwitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm running my mediawiki-installation in a Xampp-environment on a > SLES11SP3-server, and since upgrading to version 1.23.6 I cannot get the > file-upload to work again. > > So far I'ver tried the following: > > Settings in LocalSettings.php > > $wgEnableUploads = true; > #$wgUploadPath = "/_kate/test/images"; > $wgUploadPath = "$wgScriptPath/images"; > $wgFileExtensions = array('dat', 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'pdf'); > $wgCheckFileExtensions = true; > $wgVerifyMimeType = false; > $wgAllowExternalImages = true; > > wiki-t00:/opt/lampp/htdocs/_fhbwiki # chmod -R 0777 images > wiki-t00:/opt/lampp/htdocs/_fhbwiki # chown -R wwwrun:www images > > But nothing changes the error-message I get (with minute difference in the > goal-directory): > > Das Verzeichnis "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/f/f6" konnte nicht > angelegt werden. > > Only if I add the following line in the LocalSettings.php-File: > > ## If you want to use image uploads under safe mode, > ## create the directories images/archive, images/thumb and > ## images/temp, and make them all writable. Then uncomment > ## this, if it's not already uncommented: > $wgHashedUploadDirectory = false; > > The error-message changes slightly to: > > Das Verzeichnis "mwstore://local-backend/local-public" konnte nicht angelegt > werden > > In my former installation I didn't need to change the owner:group of the > images-directory at all - there the directory belonged to the same owner:group > as the rest of the mediawiki-directory and the upload worked fine with the > 777-rights on the images-directory. > > I've found the following link > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads#Check_directory_security > and the hint to using the www-data user:group but on my server there is _no_ > such user:group. > Would I need to add them in order to make the file-upload work? > > Kate > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
