[CWB] index (data) subdir secretly deleted?

[Jiayue Wang]

Thanks anyway, Andrew. I'll re-install the corpora to see if it's 
happening again.

Best

Jiayue


On 12/12/16 11:09, Hardie, Andrew wrote:
> Line 603 refers to the web-directory, not the index-data directory. So this error message does not seem to have any bearing on the problem at hand...
>
> best
>
> Andrew.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it [mailto:cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it] On Behalf Of Jiayue Wang
> Sent: 12 December 2016 11:06
> To: Open source development of the Corpus WorkBench
> Subject: Re: [CWB] index (data) subdir secretly deleted?
>
> Thanks Andrew. I check the error log and found the only suspicious
> message to be
>
> PHP Warning:  chmod(): Operation not permitted in
> /home/arthur/www_root/CQPweb/lib/admin-install.inc.php on line 603 ...
>
> It seems the installation was unsuccessful because it failed to
> chmod($newdir, 0775) after creating that folder? But I don't see why
> this particular corpus was special - other corpora were installed
> without a problem.
>
> Jiayue
>
> On 12/12/16 10:38, Hardie, Andrew wrote:
>> I have a fairly good idea where in the code this is happening: when the system detects that a data directory of the name of the new corpus already exists, it attempts to delete it. However, I cannot see why this would affect the entire index directory instead of just that of the corpus to be created; there are already checks against the name of the corpus being an empty string, which would be the normal thing I would suspect.
>>
>> It's possible that your web server error log file may contain an informative PHP message....
>>
>> best
>>
>> Andrew.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it [mailto:cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it] On Behalf Of Jiayue Wang
>> Sent: 12 December 2016 08:49
>> To: Open source development of the Corpus WorkBench
>> Subject: [CWB] index (data) subdir secretly deleted?
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I've experienced this quite a few times - when installing a corpus, the
>> whole index folder disappears. I don't know why, but it seems this
>> happens when the corpus handle is not too long or ill-formed. But the
>> problem is that all other corpora are lost too and must be re-installed.
>> Any ideas? Thanks for any help!
>>
>> Jiayue
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