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@@ -8,3 +8,8 @@ With `Umask 026` in mathopd.conf, editing pages resulted in the following errors
With `Umask 022` in mathopd.conf, editing pages works.
Hopefully this prevents someone else from spending ~2 hours figuring out why this wouldn't work. ;)
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+> More generally, if your web server uses a nonstandard umask
+> or you're getting permissions related problems in the cgi log
+> when using ikiwiki, you can force ikiwiki to use a sane umask
+> via the `umask` setting in ikiwiki's own setup file. --[[Joey]]