[knowledgeforge-user] Wiki configuration error

Sat May 16 13:31:33 UTC 2009

Hi all,

I've just set up a new project, and am getting the same error message
on the wiki as I got last year. I wonder if it could be the same
problem?

"data_dir "/org/mywiki/data" does not exists, or has incorrect
ownership or permissions.

Make sure the directory and the subdirectory pages are owned by the
web server and are readable, writable and executable by the web server
user and group.

It is recommended to use absolute paths and not relative paths. Check
also the spelling of the directory name."

Jonathan

> On 02/05/08 15:59, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I set up a wiki at a new knowledge forge project:
> >
> >    http://knowledgeforge.net/opensandbox/wiki
> >
> > I get the following error:
> >
> > "ConfigurationError
> >
> > data_dir "/org/mywiki/data" does not exists, or has incorrect ownership
> > or permissions.
> >
> > Make sure the directory and the subdirectory pages are owned by the web
> > server and are readable, writable and executable by the web server user
> > and group.
> >
> > It is recommended to use absolute paths and not relative paths. Check
> > also the spelling of the directory name."
> >
> > I think this seems familiar from when I set up a wiki at the
> > opentextbook site (which I should probably delete as it is unused) -
> > which now works.
> >
> > Any advice appreciated.
>
> This is now fixed. Basically apt-get upgrade of the main moin package
> for security reasons at the end of February resulted in old config files
> being overwritten (this should not happen without warning but it did!).
> This meant that when KForge created a new moin service it used the new
> config files that won't work 'out-of-the-box'. As a result things did
> not work. This is now fixed both at the system level and for your
> particular project.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rufus
>