Hello and sorry, please ignore my question.
The mistake ws the missing slash (/) at the end of the folder specifications
for the project's file.

The publish-project to html works now all right.

Iannis Zannos

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Iannis Zannos <zannos@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> Both examples from the org-info tutorial on publishing projects to web
> (13.3.1 Example: simple publishing configuration
> 13.3.2 Example: complex publishing configuration)
>
> fail with the following trace from the message window:
>
> Publishing file /Users/iani/Documents/projects/110305website/index.orgusing `org-publish-org-to-html'
> Exporting... [2 times]
> Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
>
> I also tried an example configuration from
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-publish-html-tutorial.html
>
> with the same results.
>
> index.org is the sole file to publish, and is located in the folder
> specified in the publish alist (as per code below).
>
> Any hints as to how to get started with publishing projects from org to
> html?
>
> Thank!
>
> Iannis Zannos
>
>
> =====================
> Try 1: (from org-info)
>
> (require 'org-publish)
>
>  (setq org-publish-project-alist
>            '(("test"
>               :base-directory
> "/Users/iani/Documents/projects/110305website"
>               :publishing-directory "/Users/iani/Sites"
>       :base-extension "org"
>               :section-numbers true
>               :table-of-contents true
>               :style "<link rel=\"stylesheet\"
>                      href=\"../other/mystyle.css\"
>                      type=\"text/css\"/>")))
>
>
>
> Try 2: (from
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-publish-html-tutorial.html)
> (setq org-publish-project-alist
>            '(("test2"
>               :base-directory
> "/Users/iani/Documents/projects/110305website"
>               :publishing-directory "/Users/iani/Sites/"
> ;;       :base-directory "~/org/"
>       :base-extension "org"
> ;;       :publishing-directory "~/public_html/"
>       :recursive t
>        :publishing-function org-publish-org-to-html
>       :headline-levels 4             ; Just the default for this project.
>        :auto-preamble t
>       )))
>
>