subversion giving crazy errors when using web dav with apache 2

lilmike · 01-23-2010, 11:08 PM

Hi,
I am trying to make a subversion system on my linux box using web dav and apache2.
I currently have a subdomain of my website for this purpose.
I have the virtual host file to what I think it should be, but when I go to the url I get this:

Code:

* 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 

- 
<D:error xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:m="http://apache.org/dav/xmlns" xmlns:C="svn:">* 

<C:error /> * 

<m:human-readable errcode="2">Could not open the requested SVN filesystem</m:human-readable> * 

</D:error>

I have the configuration file below:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@mtgames.org 
ServerName <myserveraddress>
ErrorLog /websites/<myserveraddress>logs/error.log 
CustomLog /websites/<myserveraddress>/logs/access.log combined
<Location />
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /websites/<myserveraddress>/svn 
</Location>
<location /test>
AuthType basic
AuthUserFile /websites/<myserveraddress>/<myfile>
Require valid-user
</location> 
</VirtualHost>

Also, if there is a way to use a password for commit, but not for checkout, it would be nice if you could outline how to do that here.
Thanks,
-Michael.

zhjim · 01-25-2010, 07:54 AM

Hm dunno but did you create the svn repos?

Code:

svnadmin create /websites/<myserveraddress>/svn

should do the trick.

Heres the link from the svn documentation.

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch06s04.html

lilmike · 01-25-2010, 09:30 AM

Well, It didn't seem to do anything.
By the way, my /svn path is actually going to be a parent path, for example:
http://svn.myserver.com/test would be one repository, http://svn.myserver.com/programs would be another.
Anyway, still gives the same error.
I will say that I created a /svn/test repository, but it gives the same error with that one when I go to svn.myserver.com/test
I am thinking that I have to install something for svn, but I'm not sure what that would be.
That is, something to interface between web dav and svn.
It was mentioned in the svn documentation I think.
Thanks,
-Michael.

zhjim · 01-25-2010, 09:36 AM

I saw that you do not have any DocumentRoot directive inside your VirtualHost but as apache is giving back errors this does not seem to be that bad?

Quote:

Prerequisites

To network your repository over HTTP, you basically need four components, available in two packages. You'll need Apache httpd 2.0, the mod_dav DAV module that comes with it, Subversion, and the mod_dav_svn filesystem provider module distributed with Subversion. Once you have all of those components, the process of networking your repository is as simple as:

getting httpd 2.0 up and running with the mod_dav module,

installing the mod_dav_svn plugin to mod_dav, which uses Subversion's libraries to access the repository, and

configuring your httpd.conf file to export (or expose) the repository.

Taken from the svn doc under the link I provided in my previous post.

lilmike · 01-25-2010, 10:07 AM

Ok.
Now when I create a repository, /websites/<myserver>/svn, then go to http://svn.myserver.com/, it shows the /svn repository.
Then, when I remove that svn repository, and instead create one called /svn/test, it fails both when going to http://svn.myserver.com/ and http://svn.myserver.com/test.
This is what I want:
I need it to (1) not show an error when going to the root of svn.myserver.com (if possible), and (2) work with /test and others, even when there is no root svn repository.
Any help is appreciated.
-Michael.

lilmike · 01-26-2010, 04:43 PM

Anyone got any ideas why creating a central svn repos works, but then creating svn/test and going to svn.myserver.com/test doesn't work?
And, is there any other good system I can use to do this instead of web dav?
Thanks,
-Michael.