[Gllug] Subversion dav_svn

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 02:20:39PM +0100, Steve Nelson wrote:
> On 9/1/06, Steve Nelson <sanelson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> You may also want to turn on apache verbose debugging to see if you can 
> >get something
> >> more juicy...
> >
> >Doing so...
> 
> Ok... logging set to debug:
> 
> [Fri Sep 01 20:03:12 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux)
> DAV/2 SVN/1.1.4 mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7d configured -- resuming
> normal operations
> [Fri Sep 01 20:03:51 2006] [error] [client 10.1.142.100] (20014)Error
> string not specified yet: Can't open file
> '/var/svn/repository/format': No such file or directory
> [Fri Sep 01 20:03:51 2006] [error] [client 10.1.142.100] Could not
> fetch resource information.  [500, #0]
> [Fri Sep 01 20:03:51 2006] [error] [client 10.1.142.100] Could not
> open the requested SVN filesystem  [500, #2]
> [Fri Sep 01 20:03:51 2006] [error] [client 10.1.142.100] Could not
> open the requested SVN filesystem  [500, #2]
> [Fri Sep 01 20:04:14 2006] [error] [client 10.1.142.100] (20014)Error
> string not specified yet: Can't open file
> '/var/svn/repository/format': No such file or directory
> [Fri Sep 01 20:04:14 2006] [error] [client 10.1.142.100] Could not
> fetch resource information.  [500, #0]
> [Fri Sep 01 20:04:14 2006] [error] [client 10.1.142.100] Could not
> open the requested SVN filesystem  [500, #2]
> [Fri Sep 01 20:04:14 2006] [error] [client 10.1.142.100] Could not
> open the requested SVN filesystem  [500, #2]
> 
> No idea why it is trying to find a resource called "format"...

from the svn manual:
format
A file whose contents are a single integer value that dictates the
version number of the repository layout.

I have a repository called "home". If I list the repository:

$ ls repos/home/
conf  dav  db  format  hooks  locks  README.txt

so the structure is <repository_root>/<repository_name>/format

>From your earlier mail I see your repository lives in the child dir of
/var/svn/repository:

# ls -l /var/svn/repository/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x  7 www-data www-data 4096 Aug 31 19:34 example

i.e $ cat /var/svn/repository/example/format
3

your apache config:

<Location /svn>
SVNParentPath /var/svn/repository
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "Subversion Repository"
  AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
 <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
   Require valid-user
 </LimitExcept>
</Location>

given the above you should as you say be able to browse:

http://localhost/svn/example

IIRC I found SVNParentPath a pain and ended up using SVNPath

Try this:

<Location /svn>
  SVNPath /var/svn/repository/example
  #AuthType Basic
  #AuthName "Subversion Repository"
  #AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
 #<LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
   #Require valid-user
 #</LimitExcept>
</Location>

Then uncomment our your access restrictions once you know the basic is found.

hth,

ben.

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