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@@ -48,4 +48,70 @@ to Bar page and next create the page. I do following steps:
 
 Where is my mistake?
 
---Pawel
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+--Pawel
+
+> It's not clear which Edit link you clicked in step 5. Is it the link on
+> the new page, or the old link back on page Foo that you clicked on before
+> to create Bar? It would also be good to see the URL you're at in step 5.
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+>> It was Edit link on new Bar page, of course. The URL in step 5 was
+>> http://my.host.com/wiki/ikiwiki.cgi?page=bar&do=edit.
+
+>> I've forget to add in my previous post that $pagesources{$page}
+>> (cgi_editpage subroutine of /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/CGI.pm file)
+>> doesn't exist in step 5. It exists after rebuilding all ikiwiki
+>> pages by hand.
+
+>> BTW, where does ikiwiki store information about rendered pages?
+>> Is it `/my/ikiwiki/src/dir/.ikiwiki/` directory?
+
+>> --Pawel
+
+>>> Well, the missing %pagesources value explains the symptom for sure.
+>>> ikiwiki stores its state in .ikiwiki/index, and that should include
+>>> info about the new page you've created, including the source file for
+>>> it, which is where the data in %pagesources comes from.
+>>>
+>>> It sounds to me like somehow, when you commit a change to svn by
+>>> saving the page, it rebuilds the wiki, but does not update the index
+>>> file. Maybe it's crashing before it can save the index file. Or maybe
+>>> it's possibly be misconfigured, and updating a different index file in
+>>> a different copy of the source? You should be able to figure out what's
+>>> going on my looking at how the index file changes (or not) when you
+>>> create the new page. --[[Joey]]
+
+>>>> I've checked that my ikiwiki really doesn't touch `.ikiwiki/index` file
+>>>> when I create and save a new page. In `error.log` file of my Apache2
+>>>> server I can't see any "Permission denied" messages, but I suspect
+>>>> that a reason of my problem can be the bad access permissions:
+
+>>>>      root@my.host:/my/ikiwiki/src/dir# ls -ld .ikiwiki/
+>>>>      drwxrwsr-x  2 www-data src 4096 2007-01-11 10:00 .ikiwiki/
+>>>>      root@my.host:/my/ikiwiki/src/dir# cd .ikiwiki/
+>>>>      root@my.host:/my/ikiwiki/src/dir/.ikiwiki# ls -l
+>>>>      razem 48
+>>>>      -rw-rw-r--  1 www-data src 17353 2007-01-11 10:00 index
+>>>>      -rw-rw-r--  1 www-data src     0 2007-01-11 10:17 lockfile
+>>>>      -rw-------  1 www-data src 24576 2007-01-11 10:17 sessions.db
+>>>>      -rw-------  1 www-data src     0 2006-11-15 14:45 sessions.db.lck
+>>>>      -rw-------  1 www-data src   404 2007-01-08 10:24 userdb
+
+>>>> What do you think about it? Does it look good? My ikiwiki runs
+>>>> under control of Apache2 server and it's configured to run
+>>>> as `www-data` user and `www-data` group. --Pawel
+
+>>>>> It's a bit weird to run ikiwiki as www-data. This means that www-data
+>>>>> can write to your subversion repository? And the svn post-commit hook
+>>>>> _also_ runs as www-data? It certianly could be some permissions issue
+>>>>> that is not being reported properly. --[[Joey]]
+
+>>>>>> No, my SVN `post-commit` hook runs as `root` (uid) and `www-data` (gid).
+>>>>>> Only `root` user and `src` group have write permissions to my SVN repo.
+
+>>>>>> Could you please show me your permissions for `repodir`, `srcdir`
+>>>>>> and `destdir` and how runs your Apache server? --Pawel
+
+>>>>>>> Ugh, root? My permissions setup is simple, ikiwiki runs as a single
+>>>>>>> user, and that same user can commit to the svn repo and write to
+>>>>>>> all files. --[[Joey]]