Re: MobileOrg, webdav, correct use of org-mobile-directory?

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com> wrote:

> At Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:29:20 -0400,
> Nick Dokos wrote:
> > This looks wrong - if you try it with scp from the command line, can
> > you copy a file to that destination?
> 
> OK, I played a little more with scp and got closer -- I can copy a file from the command line:
> 
> scp /home/[myuser]/tmp/afile.txt [user]@localhost:/var/www/mobileorg/web
> 

There are two possibilities here: 

o /var/www/mobileorg/web is a directory and you are copying the file
  into that directory under the name "afile.txt".

o /var/www/mobileorg is a directory, /var/www/mobileorg/web either
  does not exist or is a file in that directory and you are copying
  the file into the directory /var/www/mobileorg under the name "web".

The directory check *should* catch this case, but you might want to
double check that the "remote" directory
localhost:/var/www/mobileorg/web does indeed exist and is writable
by [myuser].

> And "[user]@localhost:/var/www/mobileorg/web" for org-mobile-directory avoids the directory check error, but then:
> 
> org-mobile-create-sumo-agenda: Cannot write to file /scpc:user@localhost:/var/www/mobileorg/web/agendas.org
> 

Also check the permissions on /var/www/mobileorg/web: in particular, you
might want to execute the following check (the check that
org-mobile-create-sumo-agenda does) in your *scratch* buffer:

  (file-writable-p "/scpc:nick@pierrot:/var/www/mobileorg/web/agendas.org")

Just cut and paste it into your *scratch* buffer, put the cursor after
the closing paren and press C-j. If it says nil, something is wrong.

One more thing: is tramp enabled in your emacs? Just try to open the
remote directory with

  C-x C-f /scpc:[user]@localhost:/var/www/mobileorg/web RET

I'm not sure that tramp needs any special attention (I cannot find anything
in my setup), but it doesn't hurt to check.

Nick

> Same error if I change org-mobile-directory to be /scp:blahblah instead of /scpc.
> 
> So: okay at the commandline, not from Emacs.
> 
> As mentioned, it's a bit on the academic side because I can just use a local path. But, if I'm going to update the documentation, I'd like to get it to run successfully through scp once.
> 
> Thanks.
> hjh
> 
> 
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