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Re: Problem committing new files (PROPFIND request gets 500 err)

From: Peter Milner <petemilner_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 2006-04-19 18:20:25 CEST

>
> > 've been having some strange problems committing to an svn repository
> > served
> > by Apache2 over https. It only seems to occur over https, not http.
> >
>
>So this problem only happens over https? It works without problems if you
>access the SAME repository over http?
>

Correct, I can commit to the same repository without any problems over
regular http.

> > I am able to authenticate, checkout a working copy, create initial
> > directory
> > structure and commit that ... but when I try to create a new file and
> > commit
> > the new file I get the following error:
> >
> > svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> > svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/trunk/test2.tmp'
> > svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/trunk/test2.tmp': 500 Internal Server Error
> > (https://myserver.com)
> >
> > However, if I create a new directory and put a file in that new
>directory,
> > I
> > can commit that without any problems. Which I don't understand ...
> >
>
>So if you add a directory with a file inside the commit succeeds.
>If you add just the directory, the commit succeeds.
>If you add just the file, the commit fails.
>

Correct again. This is the part that really baffles me.

> > So far I've only encountered this problem when creating a new file by
> > itself. This problem occurs for every user currently accessing the
> > repository.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
>
>I've never come across a problem like this! Generally either nothing
>works, or everything works. Have you tried with different clients?
>

I've been doing my testing using the default svn terminal client that comes
with debian sarge. Another users was using something some gui on a mac and
had the same issues.

>Perhaps someone with more experience with mod_dav_svn has seen this? Is
>there any way to turn debugging on for mod_dav_svn?
>

Yeah, the error messages don't really shed a lot of light on the issue. A
debug mode might help.

> >
> > To summarize: I can checkout a working copy, create directories, create
>a
> > file at the same time I create its parent directory, delete files,
>delete
> > directories, modify existing files, and update my working copy ... but
> > when
> > I try to create a new file on its own, I get the 500 error as described
> > above.
> >
> > Here are the offending entries in the Apache access logs:
> >
> > ?.?.?.? - - [12/Apr/2006:15:00:21 -0400] "OPTIONS /svn/trunk HTTP/1.1"
>200
> > 183 "-" "SVN/1.2.3 (r15833) neon/0.24.7"
> > ?.?.?.? - - [12/Apr/2006:15:00:21 -0400] "MKACTIVITY
> > /svn/!svn/act/4225fd8b-3c11-0410-9909-a5816c4fc54d HTTP/1.1" 401 - "-"
> > "SVN/1.2.3 (r15833) neon/0.24.7"
> > ?.?.?.? - user [12/Apr/2006:15:00:21 -0400] "MKACTIVITY
> > /svn/!svn/act/4225fd8b-3c11-0410-9909-a5816c4fc54d HTTP/1.1" 201 418 "-"
> > "SVN/1.2.3 (r15833) neon/0.24.7"
> > ?.?.?.? - - [12/Apr/2006:15:00:21 -0400] "PROPFIND /svn/trunk HTTP/1.1"
> > 207
> > 428 "-" "SVN/1.2.3 (r15833) neon/0.24.7"
> > ?.?.?.? - - [12/Apr/2006:15:00:21 -0400] "PROPFIND /svn/!svn/vcc/default
> > HTTP/1.1" 207 389 "-" "SVN/1.2.3 (r15833) neon/0.24.7"
> > ?.?.?.? - user [12/Apr/2006:15:00:21 -0400] "CHECKOUT /svn/!svn/bln/10
> > HTTP/1.1" 201 433 "-" "SVN/1.2.3 (r15833) neon/0.24.7"
> > ?.?.?.? - user [12/Apr/2006:15:00:21 -0400] "PROPPATCH
> > /svn/!svn/wbl/4225fd8b-3c11-0410-9909-a5816c4fc54d/10 HTTP/1.1" 207 349
> > "-"
> > "SVN/1.2.3 (r15833) neon/0.24.7"
> > ?.?.?.? - - [12/Apr/2006:15:00:21 -0400] "PROPFIND /svn/trunk HTTP/1.1"
> > 207
> > 385 "-" "SVN/1.2.3 (r15833) neon/0.24.7"
> > ?.?.?.? - user [12/Apr/2006:15:00:21 -0400] "CHECKOUT
> > /svn/!svn/ver/10/trunk
> > HTTP/1.1" 201 436 "-" "SVN/1.2.3 (r15833) neon/0.24.7"
> > ?.?.?.? - user [12/Apr/2006:15:00:21 -0400] "PROPFIND
>/svn/trunk/test2.tmp
> > HTTP/1.1" 500 2867 "-" "SVN/1.2.3 (r15833) neon/0.24.7"
> > ?.?.?.? - user [12/Apr/2006:15:00:21 -0400] "DELETE
> > /svn/!svn/act/4225fd8b-3c11-0410-9909-a5816c4fc54d HTTP/1.1" 204 - "-"
> > "SVN/1.2.3 (r15833) neon/0.24.7"
> >
>
>
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