In my example those are all virtual sites, but for some reason they are not accessible via /site. Is that an indication that something is misconfigured on the Sharepoint side?
Why would the connector report a working connection but the job be unable to navigate the path structure? Jeff > On Nov 3, 2016, at 6:17 PM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >> >> >
