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Re: n00b: unable to access remote SVN repository...

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007a_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: 2007-02-12 23:22:48 CET

On Feb 12, 2007, at 11:06, Andrew Close wrote:

> we have Apache2 setup and configured on the RH Linux box to handle our
> SVN traffic. the three required modules are loaded in Apache's
> httpd.conf file:
>
> LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
> LoadModule dav_svn_module modules/mod_dav_svn.so
> LoadModule authz_svn_module modules/mod_authz_svn.so

Good.

> i also have a location directive set up:
>
> <Location /svn>
> DAV svn
> SVNParentPath /hns/scm/repository
> SVNListParentPath on
> </Location>

Good.

> the permissions on the /hns/scm/repository directory are 775 and the
> apache user is a member of the group able to access those directories.
> the 'repository' directory is meant to contain several repositories,
> each of which are also set up with 775 permissions.
>
> i'm able to access http://10.35.2.29/svn via the web browser. i see
> the 'RSA' repository that i created using 'svnadmin create RSA';

Good, so SVNListParentPath is working.

> however, when i click on the RSA link i get the error:
>
> <D:error>
> <C:error/>
> <m:human-readable errcode="160029">
> Could not open the requested SVN filesystem
> </m:human-readable>
> </D:error>

Not good. :-)

> i've tried adding another location directive to my httpd.conf file
> under the first:
>
> <Location /RSA>
> DAV svn
> SVNPath /hns/scm/repository/RSA
> </Location>
>
> but this doesn't seem to help.

You shouldn't need that, so I would remove that.

> from my local command line i've tried to 'svn import *
> http://10.35.2.29/svn/RSA' & 'http://10.35.2.29/RSA', as well as 'svn
> add * [url]' with the following error:
>
> svn: PROPFIND request failed on /svn [or /RSA, depending on the
> URL i tried]
> svn: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem
>
> on the server i do see the 'conf/, dav/, db/, format/, etc...'
> directories in the RSA repository i created. each of these
> directories have 775 permissions as well.
>
> i should mention that my local machine is a WinXP/SP2 and i do have
> svn 1.4.3 installed locally, so the client and server versions are the
> same.
>
> any thoughts? suggestions? links aside from the svnbook?
> much appreciated.

Everything sounds good... Since you said you use Red Hat Linux, I
could only think to ask whether you have SELinux enabled, and if
therefore you need to do some extra stuff, as in this FAQ entry:

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

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