[CWB] WebInABox: Can't import existing corpora from host

[Scott Sadowsky]

Hi all!

I'm using the brilliant CQP Web in a Box to try and install an
already-indexed corpus. This corpus is located on my host machine, and I'm
using VirtualBox's virtual folders to access it from within CQPWiaB. I've
made a local copy of the registry file, placed it inside VirtualBox, and
edited it to reflect the difference in paths between the host machine and
the virtual machine, and everything seems to be where it should be (or
point to where it should point). But when I go to CQPWiaB's "Install a
corpus you have already indexed in CWB", enter the corpus's name and try to
install it, I get one of two errors:

1. If I choose the option to look for the registry file in CQPweb's usual
directory (which is where I've placed the modified registry file), it says:
"A data-directory path could not be found in the registry file for the CWB
corpus you specified. Either the data-directory is unspecified, or it is
specified with a relative path (an absolute path is needed)".

I'm using an absolute path in the registry file
(/var/cqpweb/index/test_flxml_corpus), and all the files appear there in my
file manager.

2. If I choose the option to specify the location of the registry and enter
the exact same directory that CQPweb uses as its default, but manually, I
get this error: "A corpus by that name already exists in the CQPweb
registry!".

I also get error 2 if I put in "/dev/null/" or garbage text ("asdfasdfas").

Any idea what's going on?

Thanks,
Scott

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Hardie, Andrew <a.hardie at lancaster.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi folks & esp. all you users of CWB on windows!
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> Recently, due to being Under New Management, SourceForge has cleaned up
> their act re: malware in downloadable files.
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> Unfortunately CWB was caught in their net, resulting in big red “WARNING
> MALWARE” labels all over our project page.
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> The cause for this is that two of the Windows binaries – cwb-atoi.exe and
> cwb-itoa.exe – for whatever reason trip the alarms on some (not all)
> antivirus systems; most likely because they are such tiny programs.
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> This was a known problem, but not critical (since antivirus warnings can
> be overridden) until it started showing up in our SF.net store.
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> I’ve imposed a new policy to fix this swiftly: the atoi/itoa utilities
> will no longer be included in Windows binary releases. The code is still
> there, fo course, and if you cross-compile it yourself, you will still get
> the exe for both. Of course they are non-essential and rarely used utils so
> I hope no one will miss them *too much*.
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> I have uploaded a new Windows binary bundle which no longer trips the
> malware detectors, and I have taken the otherwise step of scrubbing old
> builds which have the malware. It seems to have worked, I can no longer see
> malware warnings anywhere on the project pages. BUT if you do see any,
> please do let me know!
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> Relatedly: in  doing this, I realised, to my deep shame, that it is 4
> years since I last built & posted a Windows build. So – even aside from the
> malware-alert issue – Windows users may well wish to update in the near
> future. (Perhaps not immediately.)
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> I promise I will post updated Windows binaries more regularly from now on.
> Cross my heart and hope to (erm….) suffer indigestion.
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> best
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> Andrew.
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Dr. Scott Sadowsky
Profesor Asistente de Lingüística
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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