Re: Client Authentication Setup

On 18/10/05, Eric Brown <ericbro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello-
>
> Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong location. Didn't know where to file
> this one under.
> I'm having a problem setting up access and authentication using subversion
> and tortoise.
> Client: WinXP, Tortoise 1.1.4
> Server: Solaris 9, subversion 1.0.5
>
> When I use tortoise's repo browser to access my repository, I get the
> following error message:
> "Unable to access /svn: 403:Forbidden"
>
> I imagine it's a permissions issue. Here's my httpd.conf file
>
> user svn
> group svnadmin

Those are little strange. Except if you use Apache only for SVN access.

>
> specific modules
> dav_module
> dav_svn_module
> authz_svn_module
>
> <Location /svn>
> DAV svn
> SVNParentPath /export/myserver/repos
>
> #Access Policy
> AuthzSVNAccessFile /etc/svn-access-file
>
> #Authentication
> Require valid-user
>
> #How to authenticate
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "Eric's Repos"
> AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-file
> AllowOverride None
> Order Allow, Deny
> Allow from all
> </Location>
>
> the user and group have recursive read/write perms on
> /export/myserver/repos
>
> Apache's error log shows the following:
> [crit] client 10.0.0.2 Permission Denied /export/myserver/repos/ .htaccess
> pcfg_openfile: unable to check .htaccess file, ensure it is readable
>
> access log:
> "PROPFIND / HTTP 1.1" 403 202 "-" "SVN/1.1.4 (r13838) neon/0.24.7 (access
> through repo browser)
> "GET / HTTP 1.1 403 202 Mozilla/4.0 compatible msie 6.0 Win Nt 5.1
>
>
> I can't figure out what I'm missing. Any input would be appreciated.
>

I believe your problem is the permissions - the user Apache server
runs as should have at least read and execute privileges for all
directories in the mentioned path

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