[Expo-tech] We can push anything to expoweb.

[Philip Sargent (Gmail)]

I'm giving it another go.
Currently logging in and changing lots of permissions..

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From: Expo-tech [mailto:expo-tech-bounces at lists.wookware.org] On Behalf Of
Wookey
Sent: 28 March 2020 04:39
To: expo-tech at lists.wookware.org
Subject: Re: [Expo-tech] We can push anything to expoweb.

On 2020-03-27 23:26 -0000, Philip Sargent (Gmail) wrote:
> Can someone fix this?

OK. fixed - well, partly.

The issue was that files need to be owner expo, group www-data and both
owner and group read/write, and instead they were nearly all owned by
www-data rather than expo. At least one file
handbook/computing/x-todo-styles.css was owned by root

Fix that and then I am able to resolve the handbook/computing/x-todo.html
file 

One version has mixed DOS/unix linefeeds (DOS in first 4 and last 2 lines -
i.e body/header). Be careful to use editors smart enough to never let you do
this (accidentally).

Hmm. Took a while to work out I was in vimdiff which I don't know how to
drive, and I'm failing to get it to use ediff (which I do, sort of), and now
it's after 4am, so this will have to wait till tomorrow evg.

Did you mean to delete
years/2010/accounts/? but not commit the change? or is that a mistake?
(on the server)

> We can push anything to expoweb.

Do you mean 'can't' here?
> 
> I changed the ownership and group ownership of the relevant directory 
> to
> 
> www-data:www-data
> 
> It succeeded.

This should be expo:www-data, and is probably where things started to go
wrong.

Or possibly we should do this the other way round and have group expo, then
we could add users like you and me to the group and we should be able to
edit in-place.

> Then I tried to do the hg commit thing, so that my new page went into
> 
> mercurial.
> 
> I found a whole load of un-updated files -- all due to me pushing 
> stuff to
> 
> mercurial without doing hg update
> 
> BUT when I tried to do hg update I got this:
> 
> 
> update failed to remove photos/wook91.jpg: Permission denied!
> 
> update failed to remove photos/wookey.jpg: Permission denied!

because you had changed the permissions so that only 'www-data'
(i.e. apache) could do this.

>  
> 
> So I tried
> 
> expo at expo:~/expoweb$ su psargent
> 
>  
> 
> psargent at expo:/home/expo/expoweb$ hg update
> 
> not trusting file /home/expo/repositories/hg/expoweb/.hg/hgrc from
> 
> untrusted user expo, group expo
> 

> abort: could not lock working directory of
> 
> /home/expo/repositories/hg/expoweb: Permission denied

psargent does not have permission to do this. If we made everything group
expo and added that user to group expo then I expect it would work.

> 
> It shouldn't require sudo to do this surely ?

No, and indeed doing so will give any new files 'root' owernship which will
also break things.

> There is something  funny going on with expoweb/years/2010/accounts too:

yes. All those files have been deleted, but not removed from the VCS.
Probably a mistake and they should just be checked out again.

> expo at expo:~/expoweb/years/2010/accounts$ ls -tlA
> 
> total 24
> 
> drwx--S--- 2 www-data www-data 4096 May 25  2016 config
> 

Wookey
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