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Re: Backend Tools and Infrastructure for DEX - Report 3



On Thu, 07 Jul 2011, Nathan Handler wrote:
> I can reproduce this issue. Without having access to the logs on
> alioth, my guess is that this is a permission issue. The cgi-script
> attempts to write to several files when the form is submitted. I have
> to figure out a way to set this up. Since I am not a superuser and not
> in www-data, I have no way to change the group on the files. This
> means that I might need to allow anyone to write to them (which won't
> be the end of the world, since anything important will eventually end
> up getting stored in a VCS). I do my testing on my local machine, so
> that is why I missed that it was not working on alioth. I'll try and
> resolve this soon.

You can use ACL to grant write rights to www-data (man setfacl).

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