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    Posted by Bob Kurtz posts: 13 United States

    I'm really desperate to figure this out, so I'd be grateful for any feedback at all — even if it's just thoughts about where to look or what to tell the sys admin. Even though I have checked everything I can think of, I'm not a Linux expert by any means, so I could easily have missed something that seems obvious.

    Problem Description:
    Everything was working fine, but now for no obvious reason, nobody — not even the admin — can preview or edit any page (wiki pages, articles, etc.)

    Whenever we try to edit a page, on "save" or "preview", we get a server error that says "You do not have permission to access /tw/tiki-editpage.php on this server."

    The installation of TikiWiki was done through Fantastico. I don't have root access to the server, only through cPanel. The URL of the site I'm having trouble with is http://www.i4hd.com/tw/tiki-view_articles.php

    Someone told me to try setting "chmod 777 on the '.../tw/templates_c/en' and other directories" — but will this create security or other problems? Is there anyplace I can go to see what the permissions are supposed to be?

    Thank you,

    Bob
    LaunchHQ.com

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    Posted by Bob Kurtz posts: 13 United States

    Update:
    😡 Sorry (I'm new at this) — I probably should have mentioned in the original post that the installation of TikiWiki was done through Fantastico. I don't have root access to the server, only through cPanel. I also should have given the URL of the site I'm having trouble with: http://www.i4hd.com/tw/tiki-view_articles.php

    Thank you,

    Bob
    LaunchHQ.com


    Posted by sylvie greverend posts: 1092


    > Whenever we try to edit a page, on "save" or "preview", we get a server error that says "You do not have permission to access /tw/tiki-editpage.php on this server."
    If when you type .../tw/tiki-editpage.php , you have this problem, it seems it is more a problem of installation. DId you check the file exists and is readable by the server?

    sylvie

    Posted by Bob Kurtz posts: 13 United States

    > If when you type .../tw/tiki-editpage.php , you have this problem, it seems it is more a problem of installation. DId you check the file exists and is readable by the server?

    Thank you for your reply sylvie. That is the strange thing: I CAN type .../tw/tiki-editpage.php and it comes right up with no problem. In fact, when I click on the "edit" button for any page, the edit screen even comes up (and this is the same PHP file that is giving the error). But when I try to preview or save the page, that is when the error appears!

    Someone told me to try setting "chmod 777 on the '.../tw/templates_c/en' and other directories" — but is this secure? Is there anyplace I can go to see what the permissions are supposed to be?

    Thanks!
    Bob


    Posted by sylvie greverend posts: 1092
    Did you check your access log?
    Posted by Bob Kurtz posts: 13 United States

    > Did you check your access log?

    No, but that's an excellent suggestion! I copied them here — it looks like a temp directory is not being created, but I'm not sure why or what to do about it...

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    Error Log (in reverse order)
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    Mon Mar 13 15:28:12 2006 error PHP Warning: _smarty_include(): Failed opening 'templates_c//en/%%-77/%%-77858809/tiki-admin_external_wikis.tpl.php' for inclusion (include_path='lib/pear:lib/adodb:lib/pear:lib:.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home3/i4hd/public_html/tw/lib/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1943

    Mon Mar 13 15:28:12 2006 error PHP Warning: _smarty_include(templates_c//en/%%-77/%%-77858809/tiki-admin_external_wikis.tpl.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home3/i4hd/public_html/tw/lib/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1943

    Mon Mar 13 15:28:12 2006 error PHP Warning: touch(): Unable to create file templates_c//en/%%-77/%%-77858809/tiki-admin_external_wikis.tpl.php because No such file or directory in /home3/i4hd/public_html/tw/lib/smarty/core/core.write_compiled_resource.php on line 31

    Mon Mar 13 15:28:12 2006 error PHP Warning: Smarty error: problem writing temporary file 'templates_c//en/%%-77/%%-77858809/4415d5f2900ea' in /home3/i4hd/public_html/tw/lib/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1150

    Mon Mar 13 15:28:12 2006 error PHP Warning: Smarty error: problem creating directory '/home3/i4hd/public_html/tw/templates_c/en/%%-77' in /home3/i4hd/public_html/tw/lib/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1150

    Mon Mar 13 13:53:45 2006 alert client 24.63.202.135 /home3/i4hd/public_html/tw/db/.htaccess: Regex could not be compiled

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    Access Log
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    /tw/tiki-edit_article.php?articleId=38
    Http Code: 200 Date: Mar 13 15:12:39 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 8463
    Referer: http://www.i4hd.com/tw/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=38

    /tw/lib/overlib.js
    Http Code: 200 Date: Mar 13 15:12:40 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 43544
    Referer: http://www.i4hd.com/tw/tiki-edit_article.php?articleId=38

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    /tw/img/icons2/reduceH.gif
    Http Code: 200 Date: Mar 13 15:12:40 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 70
    Referer: http://www.i4hd.com/tw/tiki-edit_article.php?articleId=38

    /tw/tiki-edit_article.php
    Http Code: 403 Date: Mar 13 15:13:00 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 3126
    Referer: http://www.i4hd.com/tw/tiki-edit_article.php?articleId=38

    /tw/question_warning.gif
    Http Code: 404 Date: Mar 13 15:13:00 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 3098
    Referer: http://www.i4hd.com/tw/tiki-edit_article.php

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    Posted by sylvie greverend posts: 1092

    > > Did you check your access log?
    >
    > No, but that's an excellent suggestion! I copied them here — it looks like a temp directory is not being created, but I'm not sure why or what to do about it...
    >
    > ---------
    > Error Log (in reverse order)
    > ---------
    > Mon Mar 13 15:28:12 2006 error PHP Warning: _smarty_include(): Failed opening 'templates_c//en/%%-77/%%-77858809/tiki-admin_external_wikis.tpl.php' for inclusion (include_path='lib/pear:lib/adodb:lib/pear:lib:.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home3/i4hd/public_html/tw/lib/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1943
    To solve this, clear you cache admin->system->templates_c

    Posted by Bob Kurtz posts: 13 United States

    > > Mon Mar 13 15:28:12 2006 error PHP Warning: _smarty_include(): Failed opening 'templates_c//en/%%-77/%%-77858809/tiki-admin_external_wikis.tpl.php' for inclusion (include_path='lib/pear:lib/adodb:lib/pear:lib:.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home3/i4hd/public_html/tw/lib/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1943

    > To solve this, clear you cache admin->system->templates_c

    Do you mean that I should delete all the directories under /templates_c/en/?

    Posted by sylvie greverend posts: 1092


    > Do you mean that I should delete all the directories under /templates_c/en/?
    yes
    or use admin->system admin-> clear templates_c

    Posted by Bob Kurtz posts: 13 United States

    > Did you check your access log?

    ❓❓❓ Today we are getting a different error message in the log file than yesterday, but the exact same problem and the exact same results as before — very strange...

    Tue Mar 14 15:47:25 2006 error PHP Notice: Only variable references should be returned by reference in /home3/i4hd/public_html/tw/lib/search/refresh-functions.php on line 238


    (I did try to chmod 777 on .../templates/en/ using cPanel, but when I check it, it is still 751)

    Bob
    LaunchHQ.com

    Posted by sylvie greverend posts: 1092

    > > Did you check your access log?
    >
    > ❓❓❓ Today we are getting a different error message in the log file than yesterday, but the exact same problem and the exact same results as before — very strange...
    >

    >
    Tue Mar 14 15:47:25 2006 error PHP Notice: Only variable references should be returned by reference in /home3/i4hd/public_html/tw/lib/search/refresh-functions.php on line 238

    This is not an important error. It is depending on your server configuration
    Look at a postr I did one hourn ago to solve the problem

    Posted by Bob Kurtz posts: 13 United States

    > Look at a postr I did one hourn ago to solve the problem

    Sorry — I looked through all the forums (I guess you can't see all posts by a particular user?) and could not find the post that you're referring to. Can you tell me where I can find it? Thanks!


    Posted by sylvie greverend posts: 1092
    If I were you, I will chage hosting 😉
    Posted by Bob Kurtz posts: 13 United States

    > If I were you, I will chage hosting 😉

    Yes, I think you are right sylvie! I am actually in the process of doing that...


    Posted by Bob Kurtz posts: 13 United States

    Well, someone at our hosting company was finally able to get this working again by using the questionable "chmod 777" approach — but at least it's working!

    Thank you sylvie for all of your suggestions & help with this!!

    I will continue to work at understanding what happened here (and at finding a more stable hosting solution). So I would still be interested in any comments anyone might have on the topic.

    Bob
    LaunchHQ.com


    Posted by Dominic posts: 103 Wales
    I have this problem too (running tikiwik 3.1) - did you find a solution? Which files xactly did your host change to "777"?