bad VPATH

Bowker

TS 5.5.2
OD 6.0.1
Win 2k

Just upgraded to OD 6.0.1.

(Before you jump to conclusions, we have changed the slashes from / to \, we have tried y:/, //iwserver, and about 100 other options with combinations.)

Now we are receiving this error:

ERROR: Error locating Y:\default\main\NT\WORKAREA\odtest\www\.
ERROR: Teamsite compare failed
ERROR: compare-failed.
ERROR: Failed to deploy local_directory[0]: .\www
ERROR: Failed 1 directories
Thread-11 After COMPARE, res=-1
Thread-11 Got Task failed in COMPARE

the config file looks like this: (in part)
<source >
<sourceTeamsite
area="//IWSERVER/default/main/NT/STAGING"
previousArea="//IWSERVER/default/main/NT/EDITION/ed_050325_0745" >
<pathSpecification >
<path name="www" />

originally we didn't have the specific edition number on there (...NT/EDITION) and it complained that it couldn't find the edition. After adding the specific version to the edition, it complained about not being able to find the www folder in the staging directory.

From A dos prompt it could successfully see y:\default\main\NT\STAGING\www.

This error has been posted before, but all deal with TS 5.0 and OD 5.x. This is TS 5.5.2 and OD 6.0.1. The "teamsiteProperties" option in the ODBASE config file has been deprecated.

Dan Bowker
Northern Trust
Web Publishing Technology

iwovGraduate

ERROR: Error locating Y:\default\main\NT\WORKAREA\odtest\www\.

From the snippet of log you posted it seems like OD is not able to find the www directory under odtest workarea. Does it exist ?
From what you posted it looks like you really don't want to deploy from the workarea. Check your config if it has any references (in multiple definitions perhaps?) to workarea as source path.