On May 7, 2006, at 23:09, Muthaiah Ramanathan wrote:
>> Sounds like the repository is not owned by Apache.
>> The repository must at
>> the very least be write-able for the Apache process,
>> better if it is owned
>> by Apache.
>
> Ok, I have now created a new repository using svnadmin
> (of v1.3.0) like this:
>
> mkdir /lnx_data/repos_holder
> cd /lnx_data/repos_holder
> svnadmin create test_repo_httpd
>
> Now all these were run as user "root" and Apache
> server is also started with user "root".
Are you sure? Usually, Apache starts as root, but then switches to a
less-privileged user such as "nobody", "apache" or "www". If so, it
is that user that needs to be able to write to the repository files.
> After this I modified the httpd.conf and re-started
> the web server too.
>
> Now accessing the repository gives the same problem:
>
> svn ls http://localhost/svn/test_repo_httpd
> svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/test_repo_httpd'
> svn: Can't set position pointer in file
> '/lnx_data/repos_holder/test_repo_httpd/db/revs/0':
> Invalid argument
>
> Am I missing anything here ?
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Received on Sun May 7 23:30:24 2006