I've installed Wiki version 2.9 and newLISP 8.0.2 on a Red Hat Linux 9 system. Through the web editing of Wiki pages fails to write. I've tinkered with permissions to no avail. What am I missing?
The writing 'owner' of the pages/backup directories would be the same starting the newlisp cgi process, which is probably the Apache webserver. From your post I guess that it is just the writing of wiki pages, so you can browse the pages wihtout a problem, which means that the cgi with newlisp is working.
Remove the wiki/pages/.htaccess and wiki/backup/.htaccess files, and try again. They may not be configured the right way for your installation. They should only inhibit accessing these directories via a browser, only the cgi process shoul be able to read/write them.
Lutz