Re: [viewvc-users] tarball link dowload giving zerobyte tar file

Thanks for sharing the version number.  You are correct that that version
does support the 'allow_tar' option.  What you are seeing is consistent with
something going wrong not at configuration time, but at tarball generation time.

You have not, however, answered my second question.  Your web server (which
I assume is Apache) has a log file devoted to errors (somewhere like
log/error_log).  Is anything written to that file when tarball requests are
served by ViewVC on your server?  Sometimes Apache will record a whole
Python stacktrace in that file -- that's really useful information if it's
available.


Leena B Nair wrote:
> 
> I am using version 'viewvc-1.0.5'. The allow_tar option is available in
> this version, so i am afraid that the link you gave does not provide the
> necessary solution. Can you please let me know if you have any idea why
> the download tarball is downloading a zero byte file? A zip file pops up
> but it does not contain any data. Thats the issue.
> Thanks a lot in adavance
> 
> /Best regards,
> Leena/
> 
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> *"C. Michael Pilato" <[email protected]>*
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> 02/03/2010 10:22 PM
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> Leena B Nair wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have gforge installed in a linux server and is configured with SVN.
>> ViewVC is integrated with gforge to browse subversion repository in web.
>> The download tarball link is not working properly. I made the following
>> change in the configuration file "viewvc.conf":
>>
>> # allow on-the-fly generation of repository tarballs
>> #allow_tar = 0
>> allow_tar = 1
>>
>> When I click on the link "Download tarball", a zero-byte zip file is
>> generated.
>>
>> Can you suggest what needs to be done for this?
> 
> What version of ViewVC are you using?
> 
> Do you see any errors in your server's error_log that reveal what might be
> happening here?
> 
> -- 
> C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
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