Re: Permission denied error with mod_dav_svn

On Jul 27, 2006, at 16:10, Tim Berglund wrote:

> I'm running Apache 2.2.2 and Subversion 1.3.2 on Fedora Core 5. I
> am attempting to use mod_dav_svn to access a Subversion repository,
> but I'm getting permission deined errors that don't seem to make
> sense.

[snip]

> The relevant part of Apache's error log:
> [Thu Jul 27 07:22:03 2006] [error] [client 64.81.101.167] (20014)
> Internal error: Can't open file '/var/svn/web/format': Permission
> denied
> [Thu Jul 27 07:22:03 2006] [error] [client 64.81.101.167] Could not
> fetch resource information. [500, #0]
> [Thu Jul 27 07:22:03 2006] [error] [client 64.81.101.167] Could not
> open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #13]
> [Thu Jul 27 07:22:03 2006] [error] [client 64.81.101.167] Could not
> open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #13]

Are you having an SELinux problem like this one on FC3 which lists
the same error messages:

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2004-12/0559.shtml

See also the SELinux note here:

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#reposperms

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Received on Thu Jul 27 19:27:22 2006