Re: teTeX and DWWW
Marc Haber wrote:
> When I use DWWW to access the teTeX-Documentation, I can get through
> fine to
> http://torres.gf1.internal/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/mnt/main8/usr/doc
> /texmf
> while torres.gf1.internal is my Debian box. However, none of the links
> on that page work (Example:
> http://torres.gf1.internal/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/mnt/main8/usr/doc
> /texmf/tetex/teTeX-FAQ
> gives "file not found", but teTeX-FAQ.gz clearly is there).
Your web server (apache perhaps) is not guessing that the file
requested was compressed in the Debian package.
You may complain and fill a bug against the package etex-base
(check that there isn't one filled already) or switch servers (I
hear that BOA handles this correctly) or configure apache to
handle this:
- See http://localhost/doc/apache/manual/content-negotiation.html
in the apache-doc package.
- See this message from last year:
From: Zed Pobre <zed@moebius.interdestination.com>
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: compressed doc files and apache
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 17:07:42 -0500
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 01:50:29PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote:
> That works fine except that many internal links are broken. The link
> to doc/texmf/etex/base/etex_man.dvi, for example, doesn't come up with
> the dvi file because the file has been compressed with gzip and is
> stored as /usr/doc/texmf/etex/base/etex_man.dvi.gz
>
> Is there a way to configure apache to look for the gzip'd version of a
> file if the original file is not available?
You probably want to add something like:
<Directory /doc/texmf/>
Options Indexes Includes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
to your /etc/apache/access.conf file. This will cause both
etex_man.dvi.gz and etex_man.dvi to be returned in uncompressed form.
It has some other minor side effects, so you may want to read up on it
in the documentation. It's findable under "Options" or "Negotiation",
I think and you can probably find it by searching for "MultiViews".
> Also, would it be reasonable to allow .pdf files in the /usr/doc tree
> to be uncompressed? That is, put the original .pdf file in the
I didn't realize they were particularly compressable until you
mentioned it. I just tried a couple and got about 25%, though. If
you want to fight for it, open a wishlist bug against debian-policy
and submit the proposal to the policy list.
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