cvsweb error in conf - help requested

[VilleSkyttä]

On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 00:04, jml at bubel.com wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to get cvsweb running on FreeBSD and getting this error:
> 
> Error: $cvstreedefault points to a repository (local) not defined in
> %CVSROOT (edit your configuration file /etc/cvsweb.conf)
> 
> And I am certain my conf file is correct (attached below), I have used
> cvsweb on Debian linux and never had this issue.  I can't find anything
> that should be preventing this from working, any help would be greatly
> appreciated.  The path to the cvsroot is correct as listed, I am
> completely confounded, as this has never been an issue, after two days of
> banging my head I am groveling for help. ;)

I don't see anything obviously wrong with you setup.  The only logical
explanation I can come up offhand with is that /home/developer/cvsroot
might not be a directory (is it a symlink?).

What does the following command print when run it as the user that runs
cvsweb.cgi (ie. your web server):

   perl -e 'print -d "/home/developer/cvsroot" ? "yep" : "no", "\n"'

> # 'symbolic_name' => ['name_to_display', 'path_to_the_actual_repository']
> # Listed in the order specified:
> @CVSrepositories = (
>         'local'   => ['Local Repository', '/home/developer/cvsroot'],
> #       'freebsd' => ['FreeBSD',          '/home/ncvs'],
> #       'openbsd' => ['OpenBSD',          '/home/ncvs'],
> #       'netbsd'  => ['NetBSD',           '/home/ncvs'],
> #       'ruby'    => ['Ruby',             '/var/anoncvs/ruby'],
> );

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