Quoting Daniel Rall <dlr@finemaltcoding.com>:
> Andrew Hogue <hogue@cs.yorku.ca> writes:
>
> > Okay, so I got rid of everything, apache and svn, then I recompiled both
> > of them with everything properly enabled as per the INSTALL file, this
> > seemed to help, maybe last time I forgot a flag or something...
> >
> > But, not everything is okay, I try to check something out of the
> > repository and I get the following error:
> >
> > I tried:
> > svn co http://localhost/svn/repos wc
> >
> > Error:
> > svn: RA layer request failed
> > svn: PROPFIND of /: 405 Method Not Allowed
> >
> > What could this error mean?
>
> The user which your httpd process runs as must have both read and
> write access across your entire Subversion repository.
>
> I hit this error (on Linux) when I created the repository as the unix
> user "dlr", but was running my httpd daemon as the unix user "nobody"
> (who had no unix permissions allowing access to the repository).
Isn't this something mod_dav_svn could detect, and return a more user-friendly
error message? I got the impression that most people hit this problem when
setting up SVN+Apache for the first time.
Of course, the instructions in INSTALL are very explicit, so maybe we should
just tell people to learn to read instead. :-)
Brane
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Received on Tue Nov 19 20:25:29 2002