[OH-Dev] Photo uploads broken for the blog

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Sun, 6 May 2012, Jessica McKellar wrote:

> Hi Asheesh,
>
> It looks like photo uploads for the blog are broken.
>
> When I try to upload a photo, I get:
>
> """
> “full_room.png” has failed to upload due to an error
> Unable to create directory /var/www/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05. Is its
> parent directory writable by the server?
> """

Thanks for reporting that! I've just fixed the ownership and tested that 
uploads work. Give it a shot now.

Quite probably, in the near future, we should have a Jenkins task that 
verifies that blog uploads work.

The reason it broke is that, when adjusting the way we run PHP to be more 
standard to avoid the "Loss of session data" problem in MediaWiki, I 
changed the wiki to run as the 'www-data' user, and the blog now runs as 
that user as well. Sadly, I didn't adjust the ownership of the 
"wp-content" files so that www-data can write to those directories.

Now it can!

-- Asheesh.