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Re: Apache Permission denied

From: Patrick John Hays <public_at_elbubba.com>
Date: 2005-08-29 16:36:50 CEST

On Tue August 23 2005 5:03 pm, Gary Ashley wrote:
> I can connect and checkout my projects just fine, but
> cannot update. Any suggestions for getting past this
> error?
>
> [date] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Could not create
> activity /svn/!svn/act/00000105e5068a8d. [500, #0]
> [date] [error] [client x.x.x.x] could not begin a
> transaction [500, #13]
> [date] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Can't create directory
> '/svn/repo/db/transactions/14-1.txn': Permission
> denied [500, #13]
>
> Apache is running as "apache", and "apache" owns the
> /svn/repo directory and contents.
>
> I'm running Suse 9.2, Apache 2.0.54, Subversion
> 1.2.1-dev.
>
> <VirtualHost *:80>
> ServerAdmin me@mysite.com
> ServerName www.mysite.com
> DocumentRoot /web/mysite/www/html
> HostnameLookups Off
> UseCanonicalName Off
> ServerSignature Off
> <Directory "/web/mysite/www/html">
> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
> AllowOverride None
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> </Directory>
> <IfModule mod_dav_svn.c>
> <Location /svn>
> DAV svn
> SVNPath /svn/repo
>
> AuthzSVNAccessFile /svn/repo/conf/auth.conf
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "MySite Source Repository"
> AuthUserFile /svn/repo/conf/htpasses.conf
> Require valid-user
> </Location>
> </IfModule>
>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> In my auth.conf:
> [/]
> xxx = rw
>
>
> As a note, the svnserve works just fine if running as
> "apache".
>
> I can also connect, via the configured userid & pass,
> through the browser. (Shows Powered by Subversion
> version 1.2.1 (dev build).)
>
> Any thoughts greatly appreciated!

I'm running suse 9.2 as well which comes with svn 1.0.8 and would like to
upgrade to at least svn 1.1. Could you tell me if going from 1.0.8 to 1.2.1
was a major hassle? In a quick test run it seemed an enormous number of
dependencies were triggered.

TIA, Patrick

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