Re: Tearing my hair out (what's left of it...)

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:57:28 -0800, Jan Steinman 
<Jan-HF459xgdheeL7B8feK0ILA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was trying to set up a number of MediaWiki 1.4 sites. I'd written a
> bash script that duplicates the folder hierarchy and creates hard links
> to the files. I then remove LocalSettings.php, and run /wiki/config.
> 
> This worked for several websites, then refused to work on one. I kept
> getting the message:
>      * Script URI path: /wiki
>      Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class namespace in
>      /Users/xxx/Sites/yyy/wiki/includes/Namespace.php on line 52
> 
> Now the "yyy" directory, in the directory of user "xxx", was symlinked
> into /Library/WebServer, which is the standard place on MacOS X. I went
> up and down that symlinked path, looking for permission problems, and
> found none.
> 
> But the problem wasn't in the symliked path! The home directory of user
> "xxx" had somehow gotten perms of "-rwxr-x--x" -- there was no read
> permission for others, which included the user "www" that Apache runs
> under! User "xxx" and I had the same group, so I was able to go into
> the directory with no problem.
> 
> I thought it a rather strange error message for a permission problem
> several levels up!
> 
This may address a class of similar errors reported by several users.
See bug #1107 (http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1107).

Could you post your solution at that bug? Or, with your permission, I
will copy your original message there.

-- Rich Holton

en.wikipedia:User:Rholton