stevensugg
The recommended method for deleting a page is not working for me. When I select all, delete, and save, the resulting page reverts to the original content. Is this a known bug or perhaps a permissions issue? Up until now, I've been able to create pages, namespaces, etc. Thanks!
stevensugg
I can create a new page and save - works fine. I can edit the page and save - works fine. I needed to delete a page and my research said to edit the page - select everything, delete it and save it, and DokuWiki would recognize that the page is empty and actually delete the page (rather than save it as an empty file). But that doesn't happen for me. It just reverts to the last (non-empty) version that was saved.
One test that I did was to create a page with lots of content, then opened it for editing, selected everything, deleted it and saved. When the page refreshed, it had all of the content. I opened it back up, deleted everything, but then typed the single letter "x", saved it... and when the page refreshed, all I had was an "x" (as expected). I opened it back up, deleted the "x" and saved it. When the page refreshed, it was an "x"...
I asked about permissions because I thought that maybe I had permission to create and modify files, but not delete them, and maybe behind the scenes, when DokuWiki recognized that I was saving an empty file, it was issuing a delete command to the OS, but that command was failing, leaving me with the previouly saved version of the file.
I'm hosting this under IIS on Windows Server 2008. There isn't a specific permission for "delete", just "Modify", "Read & Execute", "List folder contents", "Read", and "Write". Following the instructions on security, I set "Read & Execute", "List folder contents", "Read", and "Write", but not "Modify"... maybe that's what I need to do - turn on "Modify".