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

[mlh]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:42:38PM -0600, 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.

'webdav' is just an artifact of using libneon me thinks -- not important.

> On the server, the file 2005-main is just a symlink to the main archive,

apache is probably configured not to follow symlinks for user html

> 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?

Either move the archive to your ~/www dir, or mirror it there.
Note that you also need .listing files, which are created if you make the
mirror with the --listing option, or make a (possibly empty) file
        =meta-info/http-blows
within the archive and run  'tla archive-fixup ... '


--
Matt