[darcs-users] Repsitories Not Listed

[dagit at eecs.oregonstate.edu]

Quoting Michael Thrift <mthrift at western.edu>:

> Hi,
>     I've spent hours fighting with this, and searching for answers, but
> I appear to be the only person with this problem.  I'm installing darcs
> on a server for a faculty member.  The package is installed,
> /etc/darcs/cgi.conf is setup, /var/www/cgi-bin/darcs.cgi is present and
> alive.  I've create /home/user/repositories/projectx (world readable),
> I've run darcs initialze, darcs add..., darcs record --all.

darcs init doesn't always create _darcs with world readable permissions.  In
fact, this should depend on the umask.  So as a test try:
chmod -R a+r /home/user/repositories/projectx

> I've then
> done ln -s /home/user/repositories/projectx /var/www/repos/projectx.
> /var/cache/darcs exists and is writeable by apache.  My apache
> configuration is good, just to narrow down the variables I've set global
> FollowSymLinks, and Indexes.  Yet, when I go to
> http://server/cgi-bin/darcs.cgi, it prints out "Available Repositories"
> and then a blank page.  My cgi.conf points to the correct repo folder,
> cache etc.  httpd.conf has a Directory definition for /var/www/repos.  I
> am at a loss, and there are no errors printed anywhere to suggest what
> the problem is.  My access_log shows transactions with a code of 200,
> and my error_log prints nothing when accessing
> http://server/cgi-bin/darcs.cgi.  The documentation has no suggestion of
> what to change if the very simple process of making the repo public
> doesn't work, I've googled the net and the darcs mailing list to no
> avail.  Any help is greatly appreciated, if I don't figure this out in
> about 2 hours I'm switching to SVN or CVS as per the faculty members
> request, but he'd rather use darcs.

Hopefully my email is not too late as I think your faculty member will be
happier with darcs than with SVN, BUT, darcs.cgi is not the best darcs web
interface, so if that is very important for the faculty member then you should
try darcs trac or darcsweb.

>
> Thanks!
> Mike.

Good luck!
Jason