Sharing repository through a read-only web server

[Aaron Bentley]

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Ben Gerdemann wrote:
> Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley <at> utoronto.ca> writes:
> 
>>
>> Ben Gerdemann wrote:
>>
>>> The problem is that when I try to checkout
>>> the repository through the http server, bzr is looking for files that don't
>>> exist.
>>> bzr: ERROR: Transport error: Server refuses to fullfil the request for:
>>> http://myserver/bzr-repo/home/.bzr/repository/format
>> A repository with no format file is severely malformed.  I would
>> encourage you to check and double-check that repository/format is really
>> not there, because I would expect Bazaar to always give an error about
>> such a repository, whether locally or remotely.
>>
>> It seems far more plausible that the file is present, but a server
>> configuration problem prevents it from being retrieved via http.
> 
> The format file is in http://myserver/bzr-repo/.bzr/repository/format but bzr is
> looking for it in http://myserver/bzr-repo/home/.bzr/repository/format

This is because you are trying to checkout from
http://myserver/bzr-repo/home.

When bzr opens a branch, it looks for the repository in the branch
directory, then the parent directory, and so on until it finds the
repository or reaches the top of the filesystem.

So it should do

http get /bzr-repo/home/.bzr/repository/format => 404
http get /bzr/repo/.bzr/repository/format => 200

The problem in this case is that your server isn't telling Bazaar that
http://myserver/bzr-repo/home/.bzr/repository/format doesn't exist.
Instead it is refusing to say whether it exists.

Aaron
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