Also, after you fix this, you’ll have to reindex the lists to update the web indexes, or you’ll continue to see the same error. You do this with the LISTSERV command
REINDEX BOTH IMMEDIATE *
This will take some time if you have many lists and/or many archive files, so you could prevent the command from monopolizing LISTSERV by letting it work in the background – just don’t use the IMMEDIATE
option and expect it to take longer. (Or run it with IMMEDIATE during a slow period, e.g., at night.)
Nathan
From: LISTSERV Site Administrators' Forum <[log in to unmask]>
On Behalf Of Nathan Brindle
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 10:05 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Arcive postings not found
Again, the site configuration is unlikely to have anything to do with this.
The problem is that LISTSERV can’t use a path with a space in it unless you quote it. What happens when the value is not quoted is that LISTSERV reads to the space and stops reading the keyword
setting, which is why the web interface was looking for the files in the nonexistent “E:\Program” directory. Try
Notebook= Yes,”E:\Program Files\LISTSERV\MAIN”,Weekly,Private
instead. Also note that we do not recommend using the “A” disk (under Windows, \LISTSERV\MAIN) for storing archives. This is discussed in the documentation, but briefly, each list should have
its archives in a separate directory, for instance, “E:\Program Files\LISTSERV\LISTS\BASF-FAMLAW”.
Nathan
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On Behalf Of Bruce Keppler
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 9:50 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Arcive postings not found
Hi Guys –
Thanks for your answers. Here are mine:
In my site.cfg file I have this line:
WWW_ARCHIVE_DIR=C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Archives. I don’t have any line for WWW_ARCHIVE_URL.
The application is installed at:
E:\Program Files\ListServ
The file ListServ is looking for (basf-famlaw.log1807d) does exist in:
E:\Program Files\ListServ\MAIN.
There is no folder called “E:\Program\”.
Each of the headers for my lists has this in it:
Notebook= Yes,A,Weekly,Private
Thanks,
Bruce
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On Behalf Of Nathan Brindle
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 4:57 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Arcive postings not found
Error code 2 means that the directory doesn’t exist.
The directory LISTSERV is looking for is “E:\Program\” . Does that directory exist? Or is that not the correct directory? You’ll want to check the list header for the BASF-FAMLAW list to see
what you have Notebook= set to.
FWIW, you should NOT change values in the registry for LISTSERV; LISTSERV will simply overwrite the value the next time you restart it. If you really need to change WWW_ARCHIVE_URL, you do that
in \LISTSERV\MAIN\SITE.CFG (for Windows). But this is not the problem.
Nathan
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On Behalf Of Lawrence Finch
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2018 9:10 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Arcive postings not found
Ah, OK. It’s in a different location in Windows. I think you need to change a registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\L-Soft\LISTSERV\WWW_ARCHIVE_URL
This needs to point to your archive.
As I’m not a Windows expert, perhaps one will reply if this doesn’t fix it.
Best,
Larry