[Mediawiki-l] Upload dir "not writable" under XAMPP setup - How to make writable??

Wed May 31 13:25:55 UTC 2006

I am running mediawiki as a localhost setup for development/learning.
The environment is XAMPP (so, Apache, MySQL, PhP, etc.) in WinXP.
Everything is going well ... except for "uploads".

I have read this, and everything else I can find on enabling uploads.
For some reason I keep getting this error message:

"The upload directory ($/images) is not writable by the webserver."

I have checked the apache aliases (none), I have set the flag in the
mediawiki configuration, checked the directory names/path, checked the
directory properties in Windoze, etc. I still cannot get past that
error message. I tried simply copying a .PNG to the /images directory,
but of course that can't be found by mediawiki.

I have read the information at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows and it is
(more than?) likely that something needs set in my Apache's httpd.conf
file, but I can't work out the options (have looked here:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options)

Can anyone help me to get past this one?! Thanks! David.
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David Reimer
Edinburgh, UK
djreimer at gmail.com