SID-00803: Admin Unable to Edit TWikiPreferences

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.1.1	Perl version:	5.8.8
Category:	CategoryError	Server OS:	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2	Last update:	16 years ago

I am a member of TWikiAdminGroup but unable to edit the TwikiPreferences page as I get the following error after I click Edit.

TWiki detected an internal error - please check your TWiki logs and webserver logs for more information.

RCS: failed to create file path: Permission denied

I go to the log and see the following.

File does not exist: .../TWiki/pub/TWiki/TWikiPreferences, referer: .../TWiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiPreferences

Why would I be able to view the page TWikiPreferences as it does not exist? Any idea on how to fix this?

Thanks.

-- YiqingFan - 2010-04-06

Discussion and Answer

Make sure all files below twiki/data and twiki/pub are owned by the Apache webserver user. Default on Suse is wwwrun.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-04-07

I changed permission from wwwrun to root but still got the same error. Also, there is indeed no TWikiPreferences under the TWiki/pub/TWiki.

-- YiqingFan - 2010-04-09

No, all directories and files below twiki/data and twiki/pub need to owned by wwwrun. TWikiPreferences is at twiki/data/TWiki/TWikiPreferences.txt and twiki/data/Main/TWikiPreferences.txt. Details at TWikiInstallationGuide.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-04-09

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