On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:06 AM, j. van den hoff <veedeeh...@googlemail.com
> wrote:

>
> The requested URL /cgi-bin/repo.cgi/tarball/**
> reponame-0253aa7c17e75b5a.tar.**gz was not found on this server.
>
> from this I guess that `fossil' tries ot create a subdir "tarball" within
> the cgi-script directory (or does it?) which it is not able to do (since
> only writable by root, not by the cgi-user). if this is correct: what is
> the canonical solution to the problem? is it really necessary (and
> unproblematic) to make the cgi-script dir world writable?
>

No, Fossil generates the tarball on-the-fly and transmits it back over the
wire without every writing to disk.  I'm not sure what the problem might be.

Are you sure you have the "Download ZIP" capability (which also covers
tarballs) turned on?

-- 
D. Richard Hipp
d...@sqlite.org
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