problems with apache and svn

Hi,

This has been killing me:

Setup:

FC8

Apache 2.2.8 (Unix) DAV/2 SVN/1.4.4 ... (from /etc/httpd/log/error_log)

SVN 1.4.4 (r25188)

I set up the repository as follows:

Mkdir /home/me/svn

Chown svn:svn /home/me/svn

Chmod g+s /home/me/svn

Svnadmin create /home/me/svn/repo

I added the following lines to httpd.conf

LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so (this was already there)

LoadModule dav_svn_module modules/mod_dav_svn.so (oddly, this is not
there, but when added it complains that it is already loaded)

<Location /svn>

            DAV svn

            SVNPATH /home/me/svn/repo

</Location>

I can access the repo with:

Svn list file:///home/me/svn/repo

And even from a remote machine with:

Svn list svn+ssh://192.168.1.2/home/me/svn/repo

But when I try with a browser to http://localhost/svn I get the
following error:

"Could not open requested SVN filesystem"

And the error_log reads:

[error] [client 127.0.0.1] (20014) Internal error: Can't open file
/home/me/svn/repo/format : Permission denied

Apache is running as user apache which is a member of group svn.

Permissions on /home/me/svn/repo/format are 444 root svn which should
allow reads by anyone. If I change the permissions to 777 and/or the
owner to apache I have the same problem.

I am a bit baffled here and welcome any ideas. I have looked around on
google, but all of the issues I have seen about this are when the repo
is not where it should be.

cheers
Received on 2008-07-02 22:31:29 CEST