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Re: Motorcycle accidents and PROPFIND requests failures

From: Gavin Henry <ghenry_at_suretecsystems.com>
Date: 2005-04-25 23:43:50 CEST

On Monday 25 Apr 2005 22:32, Wadsworth, Eric (Contractor) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Over the weekend, the system administrator in charge of our subversion
> server wrecked his motorcycle. He's alive, but will be out for an
> unspecified time. I understand he's a little bit mangled.

Is there any real need to share this information.

> In the meantime, our new subversion server is acting up.
>
> On the repositories, we can commit, update, and check out working copies,
> and view logs, but when we try to see the differences from a file, we get
> an error. Here's the steps (using TortoiseSVN) that leads to the error:
> Right-click on a directory and get a log of changes, click on an entry in
> the log, then double-click on a file listed as changed in that revision.
> This should bring up the nifty diff viewer, but instead I get "PROPFIND
> request failed on 'blah blah blah' PROPFIND of 'blah blah blah': 403
> Forbidden (http://marianne)". I'm not sure what this translates to if we
> used the command line client, but I imagine the error message would be the
> same.
>
> I suspect a permissions issue on the server, but since it's a windows box,
> I'm not sure how to proceed. I searched through the archives for a while,
> looking for clues, but I didn't find anything helpful.
>
> SETUP:
>
> It's an X86 PC running Windows 2000. It has Apache 2.0.53 installed (so
> SSL), and Subversion (1.1.4 r13838) is accessed that way. There are two
> repositories on the box, one (named "NEAT") created with FSFS, and
> populated with commits, and the other one (named "TGET") created with FSFS
> and populated via the "svnadmin load" command. The httpd.conf file has two
> <location> directives, one for each repository, eaching using SVNPATH. We
> use a .htpasswd file to control access, and use TortoiseSVN with our
> working copies. If anyone wants more information, let me know.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> ================================
> === Eric Wadsworth ===
> === Software Engineer ===
> === JITC, Fort Huachuca AZ ===
> === 520-538-1859 ===
> ================================
>
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Kind Regards,
Gavin Henry.
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