I'm attempting my first MediaWiki (1.17) install on MacOS X using Macports for PHP, MySQL and Apache. https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/MAMP My intent is to use a wiki documenting personal projects, and placed it in ~/Sites/mediawiki. My LocalSettings.php file contains the definition below. $wgScriptPath = "/~bpabbott/mediawiki"; The absolute path is /Users/bpabbott/Sites/mediawiki Everything appeared to be ok, until I tried to enable LaTeX to be used to render equations. I made the changes below to my LocalSettings.php. $wgEnableUploads = true; ## Upload paths. May want other Directories for additional wikis $wgUploadPath = "$wgScriptPath/images"; $wgUploadDirectory = "$wgScriptPath/images"; ## If you have the appropriate support software installed ## you can enable inline LaTeX equations: $wgUseTeX = true; ## Setup the Math directories $wgMathPath = "{$wgUploadPath}/math"; $wgMathDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/math"; $wgTmpDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/tmp"; To help with debugging, I also did the unwise thing below. mkdir ~/Sites/mediawiki/images/math mkdir ~/Sites/mediawiki/images/tmp $ chmod 777 ~/Sites/mediawiki/images/math $ chmod 777 ~/Sites/mediawiki/images/tmp Even with no security, when I attempt to include an equation on a page, I encounter the error below (while in preview) WARNING: wfMkdirParents: failed to mkdir "/~bpabbott/mediawiki/images/tmp" modes 511 in /Users/bpabbott/Sites/mediawiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 2324. The wfMakeParents function in my GlobalFunctions.php, is below. 2292 /** 2293 * Make directory, and make all parent directories if they don't exist 2294 * 2295 * @param $dir String: full path to directory to create 2296 * @param $mode Integer: chmod value to use, default is $wgDirectoryMode 2297 * @param $caller String: optional caller param for debugging. 2298 * @return bool 2299 */ 2300 function wfMkdirParents( $dir, $mode = null, $caller = null ) { 2301 global $wgDirectoryMode; 2302 2303 if ( !is_null( $caller ) ) { 2304 wfDebug( "$caller: called wfMkdirParents($dir)" ); 2305 } 2306 2307 if( strval( $dir ) === || file_exists( $dir ) ) { 2308 return true; 2309 } 2310 2311 $dir = str_replace( array( '\\', '/' ), DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $dir ); 2312 2313 if ( is_null( $mode ) ) { 2314 $mode = $wgDirectoryMode; 2315 } 2316 2317 // Turn off the normal warning, we're doing our own below 2318 wfSuppressWarnings(); 2319 $ok = mkdir( $dir, $mode, true ); // PHP5 <3 2320 wfRestoreWarnings(); 2321 2322 if( !$ok ) { 2323 // PHP doesn't report the path in its warning message, so add our own to aid in diagnosis. 2324 trigger_error( __FUNCTION__ . ": failed to mkdir \"$dir\" mode $mode", E_USER_WARNING ); 2325 } 2326 return $ok; 2327 } It appears that PHP is not able to make sense of "/~bpabbott" ... which Mediawiki interprets as "/Users/bpabbott/Sites" (?) ... I tried using an absolute path for $wgScriptPath, but that breaks the wiki. Any ideas? -- View this message in context: http://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/math-results-in-wfMkdirParents-failed-to-m… Sent from the English Wikipedia mailing list archive at Nabble.com.