Daniel Anderson wrote:
>
>
> Gary Thomas wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:14, Daniel Anderson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I'm a complete svn newbie trying to setup access to a new repository
>>>through Apache. Everything works just fine when I try to access the
>>>repository via the file:// protocol, but I can't seem to get it to
>>>work with Apache. When I try to connect to the svn repository via
>>>http, I get this error:
>>>
>>>svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/MyProject'
>>>svn:
>>>Could not open the requested SVN filesystem
>>>
>>>... or through a browser:
>>>
>>><m:human-readable errcode="13">
>>>Could not open the requested SVN filesystem
>>></m:human-readable>
>>>
>>>The Apache error log shows the following:
>>>
>>>[Mon Dec 06 16:28:22 2004] [error] [client 192.168.254.119]
>>>(20014)Error string not specified yet: Can't open file
>>>'/data/svn/services/customers/MyProject/format'
>>>: Permission denied
>>>[Mon Dec 06 16:28:22 2004] [error] [client 192.168.254.119] Could not
>>>fetch resource information. [500, #0]
>>>[Mon Dec 06 16:28:22 2004] [error] [client 192.168.254.119] Could not
>>>open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #13]
>>>[Mon Dec 06 16:28:22 2004] [error] [client 192.168.254.119] Could not
>>>open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #13]
>>>
>>>
>>>The error doesn't make any sense to me because I set global write
>>>permissions on the project directory in an attempt to ge this to
>>>work. ls -l on the project direcory:
>>>
>>>total 56
>>>drwxrwxrwx 2 root mygroup 4096 Dec 6 15:18 conf
>>>drwxrwxrwx 2 root mygroup 4096 Dec 6 15:18 dav
>>>drwxrwxrwx 2 root mygroup 4096 Dec 6 15:24 db
>>>-rwxrwxrwx 1 root mygroup 2 Dec 6 15:18 format
>>>drwxrwxrwx 2 root mygroup 4096 Dec 6 15:18 hooks
>>>drwxrwxrwx 2 root mygroup 4096 Dec 6 15:18 locks
>>>-rwxrwxrwx 1 root mygroup 379 Dec 6 15:18 README.txt
>>>
>>>This is my http.conf entry (again, no permissions):
>>>
>>><Location /MyProject>
>>> DAV svn
>>> SVNPath /data/svn/services/customers/MyProject
>>></Location>
>>>
>>>If anyone has an idea as to what the problem is, please let me know.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>When I set this up, I found that I needed the SVN repository within
>>my HTTP tree - I had some troubles when the repository was outside of
>>it(*). There may be a way to change that, but I'm happy with it working
>>this way. I also run virtual servers, so I have my <Location>
>>directives nested within one of those. Mine looks [sort of] like this:
>> <Location /SVN>
>> DAV svn
>> SVNParentPath /var/www/SVN/
>> AuthzSVNAccessFile /var/www/SVN/.authz
>> AuthUserFile /var/www/SVN/.htpasswd
>> AuthName "Subversion Repository Access"
>> AuthType Basic
>> require valid-user
>> </Location>
>>
>>This works great for me - I actually have multiple repositories under
>>the /SVN umbrella. Access to the repositories is then
>> http://MY_SERVER/SVN/xyz
>>
>>(*) IIRC the trouble I had was that ViewCVS didn't like things that
>>were outside of the tree.
>>
>>
>>
> Following your suggestion, I tried to setup a repository within the
> /var/www/ tree. It worked fine. Unfortunately I need the repository
> outside the /var/www tree. The problem seems to be with Apache, but I
> can't figure it out for the life of me. I can't even get Apache to
> serve ANY html or text page outside of the /var/www/html tree. I have
> tried using symbolic links and by specifying an alias and directory as
> follows...
>
> Alias /foo "/foo"
>
> <Directory "/foo">
> Options FollowSymLinks Indexes
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> I can get Apache to show a directory listing, but no files show up
> except nested directories. When I try to access a file (e.g.
> test.txt) in this directory via a url, the following error is written
> to the error log...
>
> (13)Permission denied: access to /foo/test.txt denied
>
> I have tried everything in terms of permissions and ownership on the
> files and directories. I am by no means knowledgable of Apache
> configuration, but I have never had any trouble setting up directories
> like this. It seems like a pretty basic task. I just can't figure
> this out.
>
> I am running Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora). Is there something new to this
> version or unique to Fedora that I am missing? This is driving me crazy.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
I *finally* figured this out. Hopefully this will help prevent someone
else from wasting countless hours trying to figure it out. The SELinux
security was somehow interfering with Apache. I don't understand the
specifics, but when I shut down the SELinux, everything began to work as
expected.
Received on Wed Dec 8 17:15:28 2004