Hi Jeff, SharePoint's site model is as follows:
-- there is a root site, usually with the URL http://somedomain.com -- there are "virtual" sites, which are also full-fledge sites, usually with the URL http://somedomain.com/site/site_name -- there are subsites of the root site, usually with URLs like http://somedomain.com/subsiteX -- there are subsites of virtual sites, usually with URLs like http://somedomain.com/site/site_name/subsiteY Your MCF sharepoint connections should not point to subsites; they should only point to the root site or a single virtual site. There is no way to deal with crawling multiple virtual sites with the same connection, which is what the documentation is trying to say. I hope this helps. Karl On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Jeff Potts <[email protected]> wrote: > I am using apache-manifoldcf-2.5. I am trying to get the SharePoint > Connector to work against SharePoint 2003. > > My SharePoint site URLs are like: > http://somedomain.com/SomeSite/_layouts/viewlsts.aspx > http://somedomain.com/SomeOtherSite/_layouts/viewlsts.aspx > http://somedomain.com/YetAnotherSite/_layouts/viewlsts.aspx > > I have set up a Connector with: > > Server protocol: http > Server name: somedomain.com > Server port: 80 > Site path: /SomeSite > > The connection status says, "Connection working". > > However, when I go to set up a job, and I click the "Paths" tab, I see the > message, "Root site is unreachable, or user has no permissions". > > I know I have permissions to that site because I can read/write to its > document library through the web interface. So I feel like I may be missing > something regarding the correct value for site path. > > The docs say, "...type in the portion of the root site URL that includes > everything after the server and port, except for the final "aspx" file," > which is why I am using "/SomeSite" as the site path. > > But another snippet from the docs says this: > > "The SharePoint connection type is designed so that one SharePoint > repository connection can access all SharePoint sites from a specific root > site though its explicit subsites. It is the case that it is desirable in > some very large SharePoint installations to access *all* SharePoint sites > using a single connection. But the ManifoldCF SharePoint connection type > does not support that model as of yet." > > That confused me because it isn't clear if I should be specifying some > sort of root site (which I have no idea how to determine the path for) or > if creating one connection for each site should work. > > Jeff > > >
