you'd get this error on any refresh?

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / bugs / Spam:_recent_changes_discussion.mdwn

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@@ -5,3 +5,38 @@ see <http://www.dk0tu.de/recentchanges/discussion/>
 The content is changing frequently without being checked into the git repository. Any ideas?
 
 --[[bastla]]
+
+> Please check your web server logs for any error messages from the CGI.
+> It seems likely that the spammer is editing that page but the changes
+> are somehow not getting committed or pushed.
+>
+> I can't tell you much without knowing details of your setup.
+> For instance, are you using the suggested git repository setup
+> shown in the diagram on the [[rcs/git]] page, or something
+> different? Can you publish a (possibly censored) setup file somewhere?
+>
+> It would probably also be worthwhile to compare the git history of
+> `srcdir/.git` with the git history of the bare repository, if you
+> have one.
+>
+> To recover, you could undo the spam in the `srcdir` (as the user ID
+> that owns the wiki), commit that, and merge with the bare repository
+> if necessary.
+>
+> ----
+>
+> When I tried editing the spammed page to clear it, I got this error:
+>
+>     Error: /srv/www/Kurse/AFu-Lizenz/e09.tex independently created, not overwriting with version from Kurse/AFu-Lizenz/e09.tex
+>
+> Your srcdir and destdir seem to have got out of sync. You might need
+> to rebuild the wiki.
+>
+> (I think I'd have received the same error for *any* edit right now.)
+>
+> If you're going to enable completely anonymous editing, I
+> recommend monitoring the wiki more carefully. It might be useful
+> to enable the `syslog` option so that wiki errors go to the
+> system log.
+>
+> --[[smcv]]