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2005-08-21
2012-10-11
  • HurricaneDavid

    HurricaneDavid - 2005-08-21

    WikiFatalError
    Cannot open database 'wiki' : '/pages/wikipagesdb', giving up.

    I've uploaded the files, and have tried to run the index.php for the first time. The error above is what I get. It is not creating the /tmp directory, or the /pages directory like I think it is supposed to.

    The permissions to the phpwiki folder are read/write, but not execute. Is that a problem?

    Thanks all.

     
    • HurricaneDavid

      HurricaneDavid - 2005-08-21

      I think I just want to use "dbm" files for content storage. I couldn't find any info on them, though. I don't really want to use mysql if I don't have to. If this dbm format is text-based, I'd like to use it.

      I assume this dbm format is some kind of proprietary-ish format that phpwiki recognizes?

      What is the difference between using flat files vs. dbm?

      Thanks.

       
    • HurricaneDavid

      HurricaneDavid - 2005-08-25

      The above might have been creating the /tmp directory. I just didn't know at the time that /tmp was from the root of the drive, not from the phpwiki folder.

      I changed the data type to "flatfile" for this installation, and then I no longer got this error.

      Howver, then I learned that 1.2.10 is very old. So I upgraded to 1.3.x and am loving all the new features.

       

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