subversion PROPFIND problem

twk · 07-24-2004, 05:13 AM

Everytime I tried to add a folder, relocate my current repository I get this

PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/repos/abc'
Could not open the requested SVN filesystem

I did chown -R my repository dir to www-data:www-data.

my parent repository dir is at
/repos

the repository is in
/repos/abc

I did ran svnadmin create on it. All files under it are www-data:www-data

any help will be appreciated

here's my dav_svn.conf

Code:

<Location /svn>

  # uncomment this to enable the repository
  DAV svn

  # set this to the path to your repository
  SVNParentPath /repos

  # The following allows for basic http authentication.  Basic authentication
  # should not be considered secure for any particularly rigorous definition of
  # secure.

  # to create a passwd file
  # # rm -f /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
  # # htpasswd2 -c /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd dwhedon
  # New password:
  # Re-type new password:
  # Adding password for user dwhedon
  # #

  # Uncomment the following 3 lines to enable Basic Authentication
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "Subversion Repository"
  AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd

  # Uncomment the following line to enable Authz Authentication
  # AuthzSVNAccessFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.authz

  # Uncomment the following three lines allow anonymous read, but make
  # committers authenticate themselves

  <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
  Require valid-user
  </LimitExcept>

</Location>

Oliver Maurhart · 08-24-2004, 11:09 AM

Hi,

I'm using SuSE 9.1 now and got that problem too.

My solution:

- Check what User/Group your apache2 runs (/etc/apache2/uid.conf)
- Go into your svn-repository and chown/chgrp all files there to those of the apache

Pitfall:

- whenever you init a "svnadmin recover" (or something like writing through svnadmin command to the db) your Berkely DB files ("__db.???") will be restet to root/root and you will get that error again ... since then the db is just accessable by root which will cause the apache2 to fail.

Help?

Oliver