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Re: Unknown DAV provider

From: Andrew Hogue <hogue_at_cs.yorku.ca>
Date: 2002-11-19 23:52:57 CET

Hi again,

I changed the user to be my own account just to check if that was the case
and I still get the same error message.

I chmod -R a+rw to the repository file and it still gives the same
message.

Is there anything else to check?

Thanks

-- Andrew

On 19 Nov 2002, Daniel Rall wrote:

> 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).
>
> A big thanks to Sander Striker for helping me out with this one @
> ApacheCon.
> --
>
> Daniel Rall <dlr@finemaltcoding.com>
>

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