On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:37:39AM -0600, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org> writes:
>
>
> > Yes, that was it. I'm not sure what the preferred way to do it is, but I
> > did a 'chown -R www-data.www-data svn' on the repository and that cleared
> > it right up.
> >
> > Is this on a FAQ somewhere that I missed? It might be nice to have a
> > question like "I set up a repository, and now I can check it out via
> > file:/// but not http://"
>
> I assume you were following the INSTALL file? At the very bottom of
> the file:
>
> Try doing a network checkout from the repository:
>
> $ svn co http://localhost/svn/repos wc
>
> The most common reason this might fail is permission problems
> reading the repository db files. If the checkout fails, make
> sure that the httpd process has permission to read and write to
> the repository. You can see all of mod_dav_svn's complaints in
> the Apache error logfile, /usr/local/apache2/logs/error_log.
And sure enough, there it is. But no, I wasn't following the INSTALL file,
I just installed the default Debian package. I don't think that file even
comes with the .deb though, so I probably would have had to do a lot more
digging before stumbling across it.
> Still, your FAQ writeup might be nice too. :-)
Except it occurred to me after posting, that some of my answers were to
a different question than the one I posed :-/. Some of those problems
would also prevent file:/// from working, no?
Be well,
Zack
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