Question

I'm getting an error when I try to save my preferences in TWiki/TWikiPreferences:

Topic save error 
During save of file TWiki.TWikiPreferences an error was found by the version control system. Please notify your TWiki administrator. 
/usr/bin/ci -q -l -m'none' -t-none -w'guest' /home/ciaran/wiki/data/TWiki/TWikiPreferences.txt 2>&1 1>/dev/null
ci: /home/ciaran/wiki/data/TWiki/TWikiPreferences.txt,v: Permission denied


Go back in your browser and save your changes locally. 

Any ideas?

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• TWiki version: 01 Sep 2001
• Web server: Apache/1.3.12
• Server OS: Linux version 2.2.16 (root@bigkitty) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #97 Fri Jun 16 19:45:30 PDT 2000
• Web browser: MS Internet Explorer 5.0
• Client OS: Windows NT 4.0 Workstation

[edit: After I posted this question, I went back and registered as CiaranHamilton .]

-- CiaranHamilton - 07 Nov 2001

Update: This also happens when I save any page, not just TWikiPreferences.

-- CiaranHamilton - 07 Nov 2001

Answer

Run the testenv script to find out what user the cgi scripts are running under. Then check the directory permissions below the twiki/data directory, and also the file permissions in those directories. They should be writable by the cgi user (usually user nobody). See details in the TWikiInstallationGuide.

-- PeterThoeny - 07 Nov 2001

Thanks. I found that although the files were supposedly writable by 'other', the directories weren't, so that caused the problem. For some reason I can't use chown, it said 'Permission denied'. Thanks!

-- CiaranHamilton - 08 Nov 2001

I just had the exact same problem. I had to do a complete reinstall of TWiki, but didn't want to lose my customizations so I tarballed it up and installed it over the new system. Seems that the default Apache installation for v. 1.3.22_4 sets the default user/group to www/www. Once I changed that to nobody/nogroup everything seemed to work again.

-- RickOliver