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The following tweaks have been made to the eBible.org Sword repository, so far:
  • Removed IPV6 AAAA record, forcing references to eBible.org to resolve to its IPV4 address, because anonymous ftp doesn't work with IPV6 (for reasons not immediately clear to me, but documented to be so).
  • Corrected an issue with file permissions on in both the ztext subdirectories and in the zipped versions of them.
  • Added InstallSize support in the .conf files.
  • Adjusted the proftpd configuration to allow anonymous ftp login with both the default user name "anonymous" and the less common but easier to type convention "ftp". This turns out to be important, because the Sword library defaults to supplying the "ftp" user name when none is specified.
  • Added http access (needed for JSword).

The new repo is at ftp://eBible.org/pub/sword and at http://eBible.org/sword (same files either way). Secure https://eBible.org/sword also works, not that there is anything sensitive to encrypt, but that protocol can bypass ISP-level caches when you want to make sure you have the latest files.

For the anonymous ftp login, no password is required, but supplying an email address, or something that looks like an email address, that indicates which front end was downloading would be nice. Or use whatever the Sword library defaults to. Whatever you put there ends up in the server logs, and really has nothing to do with email, but might be nice to analyze from time to time.

Pocket Sword likes to download search indexes rather than building them on the fly. What is the best way to generate these? Where should they be put in the repository? Is there some documentation or at least samples on these?

As I type this, the module rebuild process is about half done. (It takes about 30 hours, but that includes all outputs, including HTML, inScript, etc., for over 700 projects, some of which are very restricted in their distribution due to copyright permission issues.)

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