Re: [Orgmode] can't make org-publish do anything

[Manish]

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Dan Davison wrote:
> I'm trying to get going with org-publish, but am falling at the first hurdle. 
> I can't get it to do anything...
>
> C-h v shows that org-publish-projects-alist has the value
>
> (("website" :base-directory "~/website/" :publishing-directory 
> "~/pub_html/website/" :section-numbers nil :table-of-contents nil))
>
> The directory ~/website exists and contains a trivial org syntax file called 
> root.org ('* hello' followed by a newline)
>
> The directory ~/pub_html/website exists.
>
> I was expecting org-publish website, and C-c C-e X website (incidentally the 
> X is erroneously down as a C in the documentation node 13.3) to result in a 
> file called root.html being written to ~/pub_html/website, but that directory 
> remains empty, despite repeated invocations of the same commands...

I had similar issue.  Suggestion here might help:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/7117

-- Manish