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Re: Authentication and repo-browser

From: William Nagel <bill_at_stagelogic.com>
Date: 2005-10-24 20:50:28 CEST

Are you loading mod_dav and mod_dav_svn?

Something like:

LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
LoadModule dav_svn_module extramodules/mod_dav_svn.so

-Bill

On Oct 24, 2005, at 1:18 PM, Eric Brown wrote:

> Hello-
>
> I'm running an svn (1.0.5) server on a Solaris 9 box, with an xp
> client (tortoise 1.1.2).
>
> I'm having a bit of a problem getting the bloody thing to work.
>
> I open the repo browser and I get a 403://forbidden error message.
>
> I've got apache running as user svn and group svnadmin
>
> I've got recursive read/write perms through my repository (located
> at /myserver/home/repos).
>
> Here's a snippet of my httpd.conf file
>
> doc root /myserver/home/repos
>
> <location /repos>
> DAV svn
> SVNPath /myserver/home/repos
>
> #access policy
> AuthzAVNAccessFile /etc/svn-access-file
>
> #authenticate
> Require valid-user
>
> #how to authenticate
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "repos"
> AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-file
> </location>
>
> <directory /myserver/home/repos>
> AllowOverride None
> Order deny,allow
> Allow from all
> </directory>
>
> I get an"unable to read .htaccess file, ensure it is readable"
> error log message in apache, which doesn't make sense to me, since
> the AllowOverride directive is supposed to skip .htaccess files.
> I'm pointing the URL to http://myserver.com/repos. Thanks.

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