Question

I am getting a 'mkdir /RegistrationApprovals: Permission denied' error when trying to use TWikiRegistration and do not know what else to try.

I have installed TWiki Release 4.0. The bin/configure script doesn't show errors. Apache runs as user apache so I added apache to the twiki group (/etc/group has this entry twiki:x:504:apache) and made the data and pub directories & files group writable (775 & 664 respectively). The warn log shows this entry "| mkdir /RegistrationApprovals: Permission denied at /var/ www/twiki/lib/TWiki/UI/Register.pm line 1142..." The apache error log shows this entry "mkdir /RegistrationAp provals: Permission denied at /var/www/twiki/lib/TWiki/UI/Register.pm line 1142, referer: http://mysite.com/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiRegistrati on"

Any help is greatly appreciated. I have been at this for days.

Thanks.

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-- AndreaWells - 13 Mar 2006

Answer

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It looks like you don't have a valid path to the registration dir. It's trying to create "/RegistrationApprovals" which is obviously not writable. Check your setting of {RegistrationApprovals} in configure.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 14 Mar 2006

Thank you!

I found the setting for {RegistrationApprovals} and changed it to the appropriate directory. And I can now register.

-- AndreaWells - 14 Mar 2006

I have the same probleme while registering a user

I use twiki 4.0.2 , apache 2.0.54 on fedora core 4 logs says:

| 15 Jun 2006 - 18:54 | mkdir /RegistrationApprovals: Permission denied at /var/www/html/twiki/lib/TWiki/UI/Register.pm line 1143 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/File/Path.pm line 162 File::Path::mkpath('/RegistrationApprovals') called at /var/www/html/twiki/lib/TWiki/UI/Register.pm line 1143

the browser says:

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

mkdir path: Permission denied

in /var/www/html/twiki/lib/LocalSite.cfg $TWiki::cfg{RegistrationApprovals} = '/RegistrationApprovals';

what else shoudl it be ?

ext3 modes are: [root@wpublic /var/www/html/twiki] $ ls -ald pub data drwxr-xr-x 8 apache 1000 4096 jun 15 18:42 data drwxr-xr-x 8 apache 1000 4096 avr 1 07:45 pub

Apache runs as apache user ! what is wrong ? thanks.

-- JehanProcaccia - 15 Jun 2006

{RegistrationApprovals} must be an absolute path to the directory. From your comments it looks like you need =/var/www/html/twiki/RegistrationApprovals=

-- DiabJerius - 15 Jun 2006

Bad choice on my part above; I'm not sure how tight your server configuration is. Just make sure the directory is not browsable from the web.

-- DiabJerius - 15 Jun 2006