installing TWiki, ownership issues

[gknowco]

I've opened a trouble ticket on this but wanted to see if the community had any experience with this. I'm trying to install TWiki and the installation directions for Linux/Unix tell me to run the following code in a shell:

chown -R apache:apache twiki

With shared hosting I can't chown something myself, right? So I had an admin do it. The admin sent me back a msg saying the following was run:

chown -R nobody.nobody twiki

which is appropriate for this host.

Now I don't have permission to change anything. So why would TWiki tell me to do something that would cause me not to be able to access it? The next step is to change permissions on various files:

find bin/logos -type f -exec chmod -v 444 {} \;
find templates -type f -exec chmod -v 444 {} \;
find tools -type f -exec chmod -v 555 {} \;
chmod -v 644 lib/LocalSite.cfg
chmod -v 644 data/.htpasswd
chmod -v 644 data/mime.types

etc. I tried changing perms before hearing back from the admin and it worked fine.

Confused,
g

[Ron]

Apache CGI processes run under your userid here, so perhaps everything would have worked just fine without any chown command.

Did you try, or make the huge mistake of following the instructions?

[gknowco]

I followed the instructions :-\
I'm a *nix newb, determined to figure this stuff out. I think TWiki assumes that you are a network administrator deploying this on an enterprise level and that you have root access. They claim it can be done in a shared environment, still churning through the docs though.

[Gwaihir]

What Ron says. I bet those instructions assume PHP to run as an Apache module, however it runs as CGI here. Have'm chown it right back to yourusername.yourusername and take it from there.