[hobbit] 4.2.0 problem with "Snapshot Report"

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 03:41:21PM -0400, Gary Baluha wrote:
> I've been trying to get the "Snapshot Report" feature to work correctly, but
> no matter what date I use for the report, when I click on "Generate Report",
> I get a blank page with only "Cannot create output directory" as its
> contents.  I checked the apache logs and can't find any information about
> this.  Any ideas?

Make sure there's a "snap" directory below the Hobbit "www" directory,
with access rights so that the webserver userid has write access.
Typically this will be in ~hobbit/server/www/ with group-write access,
and the group set to the webserver group-id. E.g.

$ cd ~hobbit/server/www; ls -l
total 18
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit users    2749 2007-05-25 09:11 bb2.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit users    8191 2007-05-25 09:11 bb.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit users    2269 2007-05-25 09:11 bbnk.html
drwxr-xr-x 2 hobbit users    1168 2007-05-07 14:19 gifs
drwxr-xr-x 3 hobbit users    1280 2007-05-07 14:19 help
drwxr-xr-x 2 hobbit users      48 2007-05-07 14:19 html
lrwxrwxrwx 1 hobbit users       7 2007-05-07 14:25 index.html -> bb.html
drwxr-xr-x 2 hobbit users     184 2007-05-07 14:19 menu
drwxr-xr-x 2 hobbit users      48 2007-05-07 14:19 notes
drwxrwxr-x 2 hobbit www-data   48 2007-05-07 14:19 rep
drwxrwxr-x 2 hobbit www-data   48 2007-05-07 14:19 snap
drwxr-xr-x 2 hobbit users      48 2007-05-07 14:19 wml


Regards,
Henrik