Re: Permissions question

On May 15, 2008, at 11:48 AM, John BORIS wrote:

> I have anew installation of Subversion
> Subversion version 1.4.4 (r25188).
>
> I thought things were working fine but when I went to do an initial
> import into a repository using Tortise I get this error:
>
> Error: Can't create directory
> '/usr/local/svn/JEN-HTML-Manual/db/transactions/0-1.txn': Permission
> denied
>
>
> The repository exists (JEN-HTML-Manual) and is owned by the svn user
> svn. The group is svn.
>
>
> The Apache server is running as apache with the group apache. All of
> the files in the repository are owned by svn and in the svn group. Do
> these files and directories in the repository have to be owned by the
> user running Apache? or just i the Apache group. Like user svn belongs
> to group apache.

Possibly relevant:

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

and:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.serverconfig.multimethod.html

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Received on 2008-05-16 09:00:17 CEST