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Connecting Tortoise to Subversion/Apache on Linux.

From: Robert Cole <robert_at_silvaager.com>
Date: 2007-07-26 21:25:02 CEST

I am having a problem getting Tortoise (which I have just downloaded the
latest version) to work with Subversion through Apache.

I have Subversion (1.4.0 (r21228)) running on SUSE-10 Unix with Apache 2.2;
both of which came in the SUSE distribution. These seem to be set up and
working as I can see the repository I created (using svnadmin on the server)
with Firefox from my PC and the served pages have a Subversion signature.

On my PC I can open the empty repository with the Repository Browser. But
when I try to import some files into the repository (either by drag n drop,
or by using the import item from a right click) I get the following error
message straight away:
Error PROPFIND request failed on '/repos/courses'
Error PROPFIND of '/repos/courses': 301 Moved Permanantly ( URL )

Having looked up similar errors in the mailing list archives and FAQ I have
made sure that:
1. The repository file area and the web server file area do not overlap. My
web root directory is /srv/www and root page is /srv/www/htdocs; all
standard. I have made the Subversion root to be /srv/svn.
I have aliased /repos to /srv/svn and to allow me multiple repositories made
the first repository /srv/svn/courses

2. I have made all the files and directories from /srv/svn downwards to be
the same owner and group as that which Apache runs under (wwwrun:www).

3. There are no proxies. Both computers are on the same LAN in my home.

There are no entries in the Apache error log.
There are no entries in a separate Subversion log.
The following entries are from the Apache access log

192.168.0.4 - - [21/Jun/2007:19:38:21 +0100] "PROPFIND /repos/courses
HTTP/1.1" 301 242 "-" "SVN/1.4.4 (r25188)neon/0.26.3"
192.168.0.4 - - [21/Jun/2007:19:41:09 +0100] "PROPFIND /repos/courses
HTTP/1.1" 301 242 "-" "SVN/1.4.4 (r25188)neon/0.26.3"
192.168.0.4 - - [21/Jun/2007:19:41:50 +0100] "PROPFIND /repos/courses
HTTP/1.1" 301 242 "-" "SVN/1.4.4 (r25188)neon/0.26.3"
192.168.0.4 - - [21/Jun/2007:19:53:36 +0100] "GET /repos/courses HTTP/1.1"
301 242 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.4)
Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4"
192.168.0.4 - - [21/Jun/2007:19:53:36 +0100] "GET /repos/courses/ HTTP/1.1"
200 218 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.4)
Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4"
192.168.0.4 - - [21/Jun/2007:19:53:48 +0100] "GET /repos/courses HTTP/1.1"
301 242 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.4)
Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4"
192.168.0.4 - - [21/Jun/2007:19:54:54 +0100] "PROPFIND /repos/courses
HTTP/1.1" 301 242 "-" "SVN/1.4.4 (r25188)neon/0.26.3"
192.168.0.4 - - [21/Jun/2007:19:55:50 +0100] "PROPFIND /repos/courses
HTTP/1.1" 301 242 "-" "SVN/1.4.4 (r25188)neon/0.26.3"
192.168.0.4 - - [21/Jun/2007:19:56:07 +0100] "PROPFIND /repos/courses
HTTP/1.1" 301 242 "-" "SVN/1.4.4 (r25188)neon/0.26.3"
192.168.0.4 - - [21/Jun/2007:20:17:41 +0100] "GET /repos/courses HTTP/1.1"
301 242 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.4)
Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4"

This shows access from my attempts to import (showing the PROPFIND 301
reply) and GET request from Firefox. But, note that whereas Firefox sees a
301 reply for /repos/courses it retries with /repos/courses/ and gets a good
reply (200). Tortoise just tries to access /repos/courses -- without the
trailing slash.

I have tried to tell Tortoise that the repository is at '/repos/courses/',
but it always asks for '/repos/courses'.

So how do I either:
1. set up Tortoise to use the trailing slash, or
2. set up Apache to ignore a missing trailing slash to access a directory?

For information, here is the details from the httpd.conf stuff I have for
subversion:
<IfModule mod_dav_svn.c>

#
# project related HTML files
#
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
Alias /repos /srv/svn
</IfModule>
<Directory /srv/svn>
        Options +Indexes +Multiviews -FollowSymLinks
        IndexOptions FancyIndexing \
                        ScanHTMLTitles \
                        NameWidth=* \
                        DescriptionWidth=* \
                        SuppressLastModified \
                        SuppressSize

        order allow,deny
        allow from all
</Directory>

<Location /repos>
   DAV svn
   SVNListParentPath on
   SVNParentPath /srv/svn

   # Limit write permission to list of valid users.
# <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
# # Require SSL connection for password protection.
# # SSLRequireSSL
#
# AuthType Basic
# AuthName "Version Control System"
# AuthUserFile /etc/svn/svnpasswd
# Require valid-user
# </LimitExcept>
</Location>

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/svn_logfile "%t %u %{SVN-ACTION}e" env=SVN-ACTION

</IfModule>

Robert Cole
  _____
Silvaager
strategy & innovation

E: robert (at) Silvaager (dot) com
M: 07789 175091
www.silvaager.com

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