On May 24, 2007, at 23:52, Sonal Uphale wrote:
>> Let's say that your repository is "/var/svn" (you've previously done
>> "svnadmin create /var/svn") and your Apache server runs as the user
>> "www" in the group "www". Then I think the best way to set it up is
>> probably:
>>
>> chown -R www:www /var/svn
>> chmod -R 700 /var/svn
>> find /var/svn -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 600
>>
>> Now everything is owned by the user under which Apache runs,
>> directories have 700 (a.k.a. "rwx") permission, and files have 600
>> (a.k.a. "rw-") permission. This ensures that the only way to access
>> the repository is through Apache, so that you don't have to worry
>> about anybody being able to get access to data in the repository by
>> copying the revision files off the server directly.
>
> I have repository under /home/sbmrepos/svn.
> It is owned by sbmrepos.
> In apache httpd.conf, I have made entry as
> User sbmrepos
> Group sbmrepos
>
> <Location /svn>
> DAV svn
> SVNParentPath /home/sbmrepos/svn
> </Location>
>
> After this I restarted the httpd server and when I try to access
> server it
> gives error:
> <D:error>
> <C:error/>
> <m:human:readable errcode="13">Could not open the requested SVN
> filesystem</m:human-readble>
> </D:error>
>
> Apache log is :
> Thu May 24 21:31:36 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (20014)
> Internal error:
> Can't open file '/home/sbmrepos/svn/sbmrepos/format': Permission
> denied
> [Thu May 24 21:31:36 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Could not fetch
> resource information. [500, #0]
> [Thu May 24 21:31:36 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Could not
> open the
> requested SVN filesystem [500, #13]
> [Thu May 24 21:31:36 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Could not
> open the
> requested SVN filesystem [500, #13]
>
> From the forum mails, it is permissions issue, but can anybody please
> elaborate on it.
Everything you've said sounds reasonable...
Looking back through the thread, I see you're using RHEL5. Are you
also using SELinux? If so, you also have to do some additional setup
with the chcon command which is described here:
http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#reposperms
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Received on Fri May 25 07:58:21 2007