Re: [Gnu-arch-users] help setting up sharing over HTTP

[John A Meinel]

Joe Corneli wrote:

> I have an archive that I have set up on a server: I also have arch
> installed on my laptop.  I'm trying to make a mirror of the remote
> archive, but I get an error.
>
> [~]% tla register-archive address@hidden http://www.ma.utexas.edu/~hdm/2005-main
> [~]% tla make-archive --mirror-from address@hidden ~/hdm-mirror
> [~]% tla archive-mirror address@hidden
> webdav error: 404 Not Found
>
>
> The website http://www.ma.utexas.edu/~hdm/2005-main most certainly
> exists, so I'm not sure why I get the 404 Not Found error.  I'm also
> not sure how webdav comes into it.
>
> On the server, the file 2005-main is just a symlink to the main archive,
>
> lab45:~hdm$ ls -l www/2005-main
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 hdm      under          31 Dec 13 20:15 www/2005-main -> 
> /home/hdm/{archives}/2005-main/
>
> Maybe this is simply not the way to go.
>
> Can you offer any suggestions that would help me get things set up on
> the server side and/or on my laptop so I can make a mirror?
>  
If you are sharing over plain http (which is what it sounds like) you 
need to configure the archive to create .listing files (plain http 
doesn't support directory listings).

Since you already have the archive available the easiest thing to do is:

$ echo "it does" > $archivepath/\=meta-info/http-blows
$ tla archive-fixup $archive

Where $archivepath is the location of the archive (it needs to be on the 
local filesystem so you can create the http-blows file). And $archive is 
the archive name (eg, address@hidden)

If you are creating a new archive that will be shared over http, you can 
create the http-blows file in the initial step by supplying the -l or 
--listing flag to tla make-archive

John
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