Re: [Rest2web-develop] Doesn't r2w create destination directories?

[Michael F. <ar...@vo...>]

Chris G wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:29:21PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
>   
>> This may seem to be a rather basic question!
>>
>> I've been using r2w for a while but I've only just tried to create a
>> new destination hierarchy.  Previously I'd been regenerating existing
>> hierarchies (e.g. the r2w 'docs_html' one) or I was working with r2w's
>> destination set the same as the source so the .html files were put in
>> the same directories as the .txt files.
>>
>> Now I've changed the destination so that it's a new directory in
>> /var/www/htdocs and r2w.py fails with a "No such file or directory"
>> for the first level of subdirectory under /var/www/htdocs.
>>
>> Have I really got to create the destination hierarchy manually (or at
>> least write a script to do it)?
>>
>>     
> A little further checking and I think I see what's happening.
>
> I'm using "r2w.py -f".  If a source directory contains no *.txt files
> then I get the "No such file or directory" for the corresponding
> destination directory.  Presumably it doesn't create the destination
> because there are no files to put there, and then it tries to create
> the default index.html file and there's no directory.  At least that's
> what it looks like.
>   

I suspect you are right - in which case it is a bug that needs fixing. 
Thanks for the report.

Fuzzyman
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