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

[Hardie, Andrew]

Hi Scott,

Option 1 is the correct one to use in this case.

Might it be a permissions issue? Depending on how you mounted it, the Vbox shared folder containing the index data may not be accessible to the http daemon. Check with ls –l.

Please check this, if it’s not this, then please post the HOME line of the registry in your reply, and I’ll use that to check the code

best

Andrew.

From: cwb-bounces at liste.sslmit.unibo.it<mailto:cwb-bounces at liste.sslmit.unibo.it> [mailto:cwb-bounces at liste.sslmit.unibo.it] On Behalf Of Scott Sadowsky
Sent: 23 July 2016 20:07
To: Open source development of the Corpus WorkBench
Subject: [CWB] WebInABox: Can't import existing corpora from host

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<mailto:a.hardie at lancaster.ac.uk>> wrote:
Hi folks & esp. all you users of CWB on windows!

Recently, due to being Under New Management, SourceForge has cleaned up their act re: malware in downloadable files.

Unfortunately CWB was caught in their net, resulting in big red “WARNING MALWARE” labels all over our project page.

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.

This was a known problem, but not critical (since antivirus warnings can be overridden) until it started showing up in our SF.net store.

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.

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!

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.)

I promise I will post updated Windows binaries more regularly from now on. Cross my heart and hope to (erm….) suffer indigestion.

best

Andrew.

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