Re: mod_dav_svn assert on root location

Erez Zarum <erezzarum_at_gmail.com> writes:

> I am trying to create a master slave configuration with proxy requests
> through the slave, i have used this configuration on the slave:
> <Location />
> DAV svn
> SVNPath /scratch/repo
> ....
> SVNMasterURI "http://master.server.com/svn"
> ...
> </Location>
>
> In 1.7.7 the SVNMasterURI won't let me use http://master.server.com/
> in 1.6.19 it will.

That was a deliberate change in r1064734. I'm not sure what went wrong
with that setup but the log message is:

  Disallow attempts to proxy to the server root of a master server. It
  really just doesn't pan out well when you do.

> But when i use <Location /> i get the following assert in the apache
> error_log (the main log): "httpd: subversion/mod_dav_svn/mirror.c:47:
> proxy_request_fixup: Assertion `(uri_segment[0] == '\0') ||
> (uri_segment[0] == '/')' failed."
> If i use <Location /url> then everything works as expected.

I've raised
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4272
for the assert.

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