Help, I need a working boa.conf file

[Walter Dnes]

  This *SHOULD* be simple, but the manpage is rather sparse, and it also
seems to assume that I'm intimately familiar with NCSA-httpd, whose
directives boa.conf is modelled after.  After a couple of fruitless days
of banging head against brick wall, I'm swallowing my pride, and asking
for a working config.  I need...

  a) a working boa.conf file

  b) where do I put it

  c) what commandline ("-c" and/or "-r") parameters to pass to the
invocation of boa.

  I want to run boa on port 1024, and serve out /usr/portage/distfiles/
to another machine at home (*PLEASE* don't bother with httpd-replicator
as there are other issues).  Here's what I have so far...

Port 1024
Listen 192.168.123.252
User nobody
Group nogroup
DocumentRoot /usr/portage/distfiles
MimeTypes /dev/null
DirectoryMaker /usr/lib/boa/boa_indexer

  The client machine does connect to the server on port 1024, but gets a
404 error for the file it's trying to download.  I've manually confirmed
that the requested file exists.  I temporarily disconnected the ADSL
modem from the LAN, and shut down iptables, to remove the possibility of
blockage there.

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