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Re: OPTIONS request failed error

From: Shay Harding <sharding_at_ccbill.com>
Date: 2002-08-14 00:53:52 CEST

On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 15:41, Julian Fitzell wrote:
> Shay Harding wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 08:57, Karl Fogel wrote:
> >
> >>Shay Harding <sharding@ccbill.com> writes:
> >>
> >>>Ok, I am at my wits end about these problems that suddenly appeared
> >>>after upgrading to the newest Subversion (revision 2959) and Apache
> >>>(from CVS).
> >>>
> >>>I keep getting the following error no matter what commands I issue:
> >>>
> >>>[shayh]# svn mkdir http://localhost/repos/programmers -m "Test"
> >>>subversion/libsvn_ra_dav/util.c:332: (apr_err=20014, src_err=0)
> >>>svn: Error string not specified yet
> >>>svn: OPTIONS request failed on /repos
> >>>subversion/libsvn_ra_dav/util.c:306: (apr_err=20014, src_err=0)
> >>>svn: The OPTIONS status was 301, but expected 200.
> >>>
> >>>Now this was working before I updated. I get the same error if I try to
> >>>import anything now as well.
> >>>
> >>>Nothing at all appears in the Apache error log, just the above error
> >>>that gets printed to screen.
> >>
> >>Can you do an ethereal capture of the traffic on port 80?
> >>
> >>(And if you're really feeling ambitious, do the same thing with the
> >>old code, the version that worked, so we can compare them...)
> >>
> >
> >
> > Well, after messing with this for a while, it seems Apache (or some
> > component of Apache) is sending back a 301 status (permanent redirect)
> > for any access to http://localhost/repos where my repository resides. If
> > I lynx to the page, I get there no problem but that's only because Lynx
> > redirects me without complaints. If I use 'svn mkdir
> > http://localhost/repos/A', it errors out because it is expecting a 200
> > (OK) status, but receiving a 301 status back (guess there's no redirect
> > capability within mod_dav_svn (or maybe it's the mod_dav) module?
> >
> > Now as to why the Apache server is insisting on a 301 status... I have
> > no clue. There are no <Redirect> type tags in the conf file and the SVN
> > config is:
> >
> > Alias /repos /var/securewww/repos
> >
> > <Location /repos>
> > DAV svn
> > SVNPath /var/securewww/repos
> >
> > AllowOverride None
> > Options None
> > </Location>
> >
>
> Perhaps I'm missing something but why is that Alias directive there?
> Looks to me like you've got two thing serving the same URL path
> ("/alias") though I have no idea which take precedence. I also don't
> quite see how that would cause a 301 but I always try to remove the
> extraneous stuff first and see if the problem is still there. If
> there's actually a reason for that Alias, my mistake...
>
> [...]
> >
> >
> > Any help or insight would surely be appreciated.
>
> Julian

The 'Alias' exists because '/repos' is not in the DocumentRoot so Apache
needs to know where to find it or else it will return a 404.

Shay

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