SID-01264: RCS: failed to create file path: Permission denied

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.2.0	Perl version:	5.10.0
Category:	CategoryEditing	Server OS:	Linux km 2.6.18	Last update:	14 years ago

I recently restored a separate TWiki (twiki_old) as one of the webs of a different TWiki (twiki_new).

I was successful in this, but whenever I try to edit a page, I get this error message:

"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 found a warn file under data/ and this is the recurring message:

" | 06 Sep 2011 - 14:43 | RCS: failed to create file /var/www/twiki/data/CustomerTwiki/Content888CreativeStudios/WebHome.lease: Permission denied at /var/www/twiki/lib/TWiki/Store/RcsFile.pm line 764."

I've been looking through previous questions regarding this error, but I haven't quite yet found one that has the exact same situation.

I would really appreciate any instructions that I can follow regarding this.

Thanks!

-- MeahBaltazar - 2011-09-06

Discussion and Answer

Make sure that /var/www/twiki/data/CustomerTwiki and all files & directories below it are owned by the webserver user (depends on webserver configuration, can be apache, www-data, etc). Same for /var/www/twiki/pub/CustomerTwiki/.

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-09-06

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