http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/Cabal is "403 Forbidden"

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 00:37 +0200, Thorkil Naur wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> At the time of writing this, when I try to access one of the 
> "http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/DarcsRepositories", the one called 
> "http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/Cabal", I get the following message:
> 
> > Forbidden
> > 
> > You don't have permission to access /packages/Cabal on this server.
> > 
> > Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an 
> > ErrorDocument to handle the request. 
> 
> Other packages (e.g. "http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/base/") behave in a 
> much more useful manner.
> 
> An explanation of this (and a remedy?) would be most welcome.

Hmm. The web server doesn't seem to like following symbolic links.

Previously we had a symbolic link $top/cabal point to
$top/packages/Cabal

I've just switched this around so that $top/cabal and
$top/packages/Cabal is the symlink to the other.

Perhaps we can get the webserver config updated, otherwise we'll have o
rethink how we (re)arrange the darcs repos of various packages.

Duncan