[Cvsnt] CVSWeb NT using shared directory

Dave Jones davegjones1 at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Mar 4 15:57:32 GMT 2002


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Right, after some hacking about I've got my CVSWEB server running using
a shared network drive to access the cvs repos.  And the answer...
well, with hindsight it's obvious isn't it... ditch IIS and use a
proper webserver (i.e. Apache)!

In more detail:

Arthur, you're spot on; because I need to authenticate to the cvs
repository as someone other than system at localhost, I need the webserver
to run the perl process as the user of my choosing.  IIS will not allow
me to do this (at least not my version on NT4).  However, Apache will
allow this, by setting the preferences on the Services dialogue from
the control panel (it seems that this option is disabled by MS for
IIS).

Once this is done, it's all plain sailing.  Repository roots can be set
up as //machine/share_name/cvs_repo, the only other change, extra to
those mentioned on DevGuy was that the path to the perl executable
needed changing at the top of cvsweb.pl.

The only difference in running seems to be that I must always specify a
trailing slash when connecting i.e.
http://xyz/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/

Job's a goodun

Dave


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> You cannot use network shares with CVSWEN NT.
>
> In fact it is very hard even to use network mounted drives with
> CVSWEB NT,
> but it is possible.  From memory I think you need to grant the user
> SYSTEM
> access to the share and the folders within it (and the rcsutils and
> cvs.exe).
>
> Finally, many people also report needing the attached rlog to make it
> work.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Arthur Barrett
>  <<rcs57nt.zip>>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Dave Jones [SMTP:davegjones1 at yahoo.co.uk]
> > Sent:	Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:13 AM
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> > Subject:	[Cvsnt] CVSWeb NT using shared directory
> >
> > Hi, I hope this is the right place to be posting questions about
> > cvsweb-nt:  I have a cvs-nt server (1.11.1.2 (Build 41)) running on
> one
> > machine (A) and cvsweb-nt (1.93.2.2) running on another machine (B)
> > within the same domain.  Does anyone know of any reason why this
> setup
> > may not work?
> >
> > I've set up %CVSROOT on B in the .conf file with the path to the
> cvs
> > repo on A as:
> >  'Dev' => '//A/dev'
> >
> > where dev is a share for which I (currently) have 'change'
> permissions.
> >
> > What's happening is that I can get a directory list of the top
> level of
> > 'Dev' (currently containing only the CVSROOT dir) but if I click on
> the
> > CVSROOT link I get a 'failed to spawn GNU rlog on .....' message
> > despite having rlog in the path (both system and in the conf file)
> and
> > permission to execute it.  In fact, the rlog process never even
> starts!
> >
> >
> > I have noticed that the path to each file in the directory, given
> in
> > the error message, contains a extra slash after the CVSROOT
> directory
> > (e.g. "//A/dev/CVSROOT//cvswrappers,v").  But I've tried executing
> rlog
> > from the command line, from the same account as IIS is running,
> using
> > the files listed in the error message without any problems.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Dave
> >
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