Question

In the BlackListPlugin, is there a supported way to edit the BANLIST? (other than manually editing pub/TWiki/BlackListPlugin/_ban_list.txt with a text editor) Using the form in TWiki/BlackListPlugin (as the documentation suggests is possible) always gives a permission error even if the user is TWikiAdministrator.

ALLOWTOPICCHANGE and ALLOWTOPICRENAME for the plugin are both set to TWikiAdminGroup.

Environment

-- ElisabethAtems - 11 Aug 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

This is a file permission error. Make sure the pub/TWiki/BlackListPlugin/ directory and files in it are writable by the Apache user (nobody, wwwrun or the like). You can edit the _ban_list.txt file with a text editor if needed.

-- PeterThoeny - 11 Aug 2006

That was my first thought and the first thing I checked. The permissions are correct and the error still happens. Sorry I should have said that in my question.

-- ElisabethAtems - 13 Aug 2006

That is odd. What is the exact error message you get?

-- PeterThoeny - 13 Aug 2006

Error: You do not have permission to maintain the list [OK]

-- ElisabethAtems - 15 Aug 2006

This error message is shown if the logged in user has no permission to edit the BlackListPlugin topic in the web where the Plugin is installed, typically TWiki web.

-- PeterThoeny - 15 Aug 2006