IRC log of #dokuwiki @ irc.freenode.net

For Monday, 14 October 2019

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11. message at 13:03:13

    alwyn

    How can I best debug (filesystem)permission issues? I'm getting "The datadir ('pages') at /pages is not found, isn't accessible or writable."

12. message at 13:04:25

    alwyn

    The same error occurs when I go to /install.php

13. message at 13:11:09

    Harmen

    apache log

14. message at 13:11:27

    Harmen

    and see if the dir's are owned by the same user as your httpd is running under

15. message at 13:11:31

    Harmen

    usually www-data

16. message at 13:11:39

    Harmen

    check the permissions on the OS level

17. message at 13:12:26

    Harmen

    drwxr-xr-x 9 www-data www-data 4.0K Aug 13 19:32 www

18. message at 13:12:38

    alwyn

    Well, as the user that is running the webserver I can touch/mkdir files in the data directory just fine

19. message at 13:12:39

    Harmen

    That's how it's here. Running stock Apache on Debian.

20. message at 13:13:05

    Harmen

    The webserver won't run under your personal account. :)

21. message at 13:13:08

    alwyn

    I'm trying the php.ini debug config now, maybe it'll give a bit more insight

22. message at 13:13:24

    Harmen

    Normally the dir and files, have to be owned by www-data:www-data

23. message at 13:13:24

    alwyn

    Sorry Harmen, I know :)

24. message at 13:14:25

    Harmen

    Usually you'd download the files, unzip then, then do a chmod -R www-data:www-data on all files and dirs

25. message at 13:14:44

    Harmen

    and you should be fine, if it simply complains about pages, see what the rights on the pages subdir are

26. message at 13:14:57

    alwyn

    Following https://www.dokuwiki.org/install:permissions, the www dir doesn't need to be writable, just data, lib/plugins, lib/tpl, and conf

27. message at 13:15:03

    Harmen

    drwxr-xr-x 12 www-data www-data 4.0K Jan 6 2019 data

28. message at 13:15:08

    Harmen

    drwxr-xr-x 7 www-data www-data 4096 Aug 12 20:24 pages

29. message at 13:15:16

    Harmen

    (pages is a subdir of data)

30. message at 13:15:35

    alwyn

    As the user that is running the webserver, I can touch/mkdir files and directories in data/conf without issues

31. message at 13:15:57

    Harmen

    you did a sudo su - www-data ?

32. message at 13:16:23

    alwyn

    yes

33. message at 13:16:35

    alwyn

    (not precisely that command but same concept)

34. message at 13:17:40

    alwyn

    Oh hang on I might have forgotten something

35. message at 13:17:44

    Harmen

    :)

36. message at 13:26:17

    alwyn

    Nope, that did not fix it.

37. message at 13:28:23

    Harmen

    Hmm. You sure all the rights are OK and the directories are +x all the way?

38. message at 13:28:39

    Harmen

    (And ... apache points to the right dir.)

39. message at 13:28:52

    alwyn

    A bit more context: I'm trying to make a docker image for dokuwiki that allows arbitrary UID's. Now the docker image works fine with a static UID, but not with an arbitrary one.

40. message at 13:29:36

    alwyn

    To accomplish that (following the appropriate guides), I have set all necessary directories to be group-writeable and -executable

41. message at 13:32:48

    alwyn

    I'll try to give group-writeable permission to all folders instead of just data, conf and lib/x

42. message at 13:33:23

    alwyn

    actually, that is already the case ._.

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44. message at 13:44:38

    alwyn

    urgh even with error_reporting = E_ALL I don't get any errors in the php log

45. message at 13:44:55

    alwyn

    A test.php works fine as well

46. message at 13:45:35

    Harmen

    Hmm.

47. message at 13:45:44

    Harmen

    I don't have any experience with docker, sorry. :(

48. message at 13:45:47

    Harmen

    Just plain vm's.

49. message at 13:46:02

    Harmen

    The only container thing I run, is an LXC container.

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53. message at 14:50:55

    alwyn

    Hmm odd, the apache process does not have write permission, but the same user does :/