Last modified: 2010-05-15 16:03:24 UTC
Created attachment 5845 [details] Fix applied to line 25 sqlite-3.3.6-2 php-5.1.6-20.el5_2.1 lighttpd-1.4.20-1.el5.rf mediawiki-1.13.4 When attempting to install mediawiki using sqlite as the backend, I get the following errors. Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in /repos/mediawiki/includes/db/DatabaseSqlite.php on line 26 # Attempting to connect to database "wikidb" as "wikiuser"... Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in /repos/mediawiki/includes/db/DatabaseSqlite.php on line 26 Fatal error: Call to undefined function wfPrintError() in /repos/mediawiki/includes/Exception.php on line 283 Upon closer inspection, I noticed that line 25 contains the following: if ("$wgSQLiteDataDir" == '') $wgSQLiteDataDir = dirname($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']).'/data'; dirname function call does not make sense here because $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT' is always a directory. In my case it is "_ENV["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] /repos" (from phpinfo() ). dirname function returns / and attempts to create the directory at //data. Simple fix: if ("$wgSQLiteDataDir" == '') $wgSQLiteDataDir = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/data'; Cheers, Vijay
I'm not sure how that would help. It still wouldn't be a directory, right? So you'd still get the same error.
If the autodetected data directory is wrong, you should enter one manually in the "SQLite data directory" box. I've committed a change in r50329 for release in 1.15 which hopefully makes this more clear. Note that you should *not* use a directory which is in the document root, because if you do that, the whole database will be publically accessible, leaking private information such as user password hashes. The dirname() is there to put the data directory one level up from the document root, e.g. in /var/data when /var/www is the document root.
