CentOS 7: Want a functional loggerhead

[William Grant]

On 09/10/15 09:20, Kevin R. Bulgrien wrote:
> To bring this thread around to some closure:
> 
>>  $ cat /etc/redhat-release && /home/app/bin/serve-branches ~/bzr/blah
>>  CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)
>>  DEBUG:paste.httpserver.ThreadPool:Started new worker 139704170727168: Initial 
>> worker pool
>>  <snip />
>>  serving on 0.0.0.0:8080 view at http://127.0.0.1:8080
>>
>>  $ lynx http://localhost:8080/
>>  Alert!: HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found
> 
> All my problems with 404s go away on CentOS 7 if I change the command used
> to invoke serve-branches:
> 
> 1) Add --allow-writes to the serve-branches command line.
> 
> 2) Do not add --allow-writes, but do prefix the served path with "file://".
> 
> Thanks to William Grant for this tip.  He had a hunch that my issue might be
> related to:
> 
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/loggerhead/+bug/1097567
> 
> I'm not exactly sure how he came up with the suggestions that worked...
> 
> So I still don't know why CentOS 7 needs these things and other operating
> systems do not, but bug 1097567 questions whether the issue might be
> related to middleware.
> 
> I also reported success here:
> 
>   https://answers.launchpad.net/loggerhead/+question/271275/

The problem is in loggerhead/main.py's get_config_and_path. If
allow_writes isn't set, it prepends "readonly+" to the base -- but that
only makes sense if the base is a URL rather than a path.

Loggerhead should probably turn a naked path into a file:/// URL before
it gets to that point.

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