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

[Thorkil Naur]

Hello,

And indeed, the instructions work now. Thank you very much.

Best regards
Thorkil

On Saturday 21 October 2006 05:49, Andy Gill wrote:
> There was a sym link from
> 
>    packages/Cabal to ../cabal
> 
> which works fine for people that have direct access to the filesystem,
> but did not work under apache. Its fixed now; we allow symbolic
> links inside the darcs http tree.
> 
> I hit the same problem when building a new, clean ghc-HEAD.
> The instructions on the wiki page should work now.
> 
> AndyG
> 
> 
> On Oct 20, 2006, at 3:37 PM, 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.
> >
> > (I am following the directions on
> > "http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/ 
> > GettingTheSources" and
> > step into this problem when I do the "./darcs-all get".)
> >
> > Thanks and regards
> > Thorkil
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