Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Permissions issue again?

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Alan Hoyle schrieb:
> I'm running PHPwiki RC3 on Fedora Core 3 with php-4.3.11-2.5 and using
> flatfiles for my DB.

First of all:
You're not using flatfiles, you are using DATABASE_TYPE=dba with 
DATABASE_DBA_HANDLER=flatfile, which is totally untested and not 
recommended at all.

DATABASE_TYPE=file would create a single file per page in page_data/ and 
ver_data/

> It had been running for a couple of months without any problems, but
> sometime recently it started failing with the following error:
> 
> Fatal Error:
> lib/DbaDatabase.php:54: Error:
> dba_open(/home/alanh/public_html/wiki/pages/pagedb.flatfile): failed
> to open stream: Permission denied
> file: /home/alanh/public_html/wiki/pages/pagedb.flatfile
> mode: w
> handler: flatfile

So your db got locked somehow, and you have to unlock it.
I assume your system uses OS-level locks.

Please read the dba docs how to unlock these two files.

> lib/DbaDatabase.php:54: Error:
> dba_open(/home/alanh/public_html/wiki/pages/pagedb.flatfile): failed
> to open stream: Permission denied
> file: /home/alanh/public_html/wiki/pages/pagedb.flatfile
> mode: w
> handler: flatfile
> 
> I know that I didn't change anything on the machine (I'm the only
> user).  It just spontaneously started happening.
> 
> drwxrwxr-x   12 alanh alanh   4096 May 10 15:54 wiki/
> $ ls -al|grep pages;ls -l pages
> drwxrwxrwx   2 alanh apache  4096 May  9 11:12 pages/
> total 12312
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 apache apache 3787408 Jun 13 09:54 pagedb.flatfile*
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 apache apache 8787161 Jun 13 09:54 session.flatfile*
> 
> I don't know why this is going on.  

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