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Item10964: Fresh Debian installation fails to create necessary directories

Priority: Normal
Current State: Closed
Released In: n/a
Target Release: n/a

Applies To: Extension
Component: DebianPackage
Branches: Release01x01

Reported By: KenBaker
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Last Change By: SvenDowideit

A fresh installation of Foswiki via the Debian package installer, with a fresh installation of Apache2 failed.

Apache error.log showed:

ERROR: Could not open logfile /var/lib/foswiki/working/logs/events.log for write. Your admin should 'configure' now and fix the errors!

It looks like the installer didn't create /var/lib/foswiki/working/logs -- creating this folder solved the problem.

-- KenBaker - 13 Jul 2011

Rather than create /var/lib/foswiki/working/logs as a directory, I've created it as a symbolic link to /var/log/foswiki. The /var/lib/foswiki/ directory contains a similar link, called 'log', which makes me think that this is the intended behavior. HTH

-- RobertWaters - 05 Aug 2011

Robert - yes, thankyou, fully correct. - fixed for 1.1.4 package.

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Summary	Fresh Debian installation fails to create necessary directories
ReportedBy	KenBaker
Codebase	1.1.3
SVN Range
AppliesTo	Extension
Component	DebianPackage
Priority	Normal
CurrentState	Closed
WaitingFor
Checkins	distro:715ea601a49e
TargetRelease	n/a
ReleasedIn	n/a
CheckinsOnBranches	Release01x01
trunkCheckins
Release01x01Checkins	distro:715ea601a49e