Re: SVN + viewvc

Could be a permission problem...

* Are you using Apache or svnserve as your Subversion server?
* Is viewvc being run by the same user as your Subversion server?

In our setup, we use Apache as our Subversion server, and viewvc runs
as a CGI under the same user Apache uses. However, I can imagine if
you're using svnserve that the viewvc program might not have the same
permissions in reading the repository.

Otherwise, I am not too sure. I'm not a Python developer, but it
appears that viewvc.py is using the standard Python/Subversion module,
and we had no problems getting viewvc to work. The hardest part was
setting up the CGI gateway in our Apache server since it is normally
not turned on by default. Otherwise, it was downloading viewvc, and
setting up the viewvc

--
David Weintraub
qazwart_at_gmail.com
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Himanshu Raina
<raina_himanshu_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Guess you have got it all wrong. My query was how to make my server (running
> subversion) accessible over http using viewvc. I have made relevant changes
> in the httpd.conf and everything seems fine as far as the configuration
> goes. The only botheration has been the error "Berkeley DB error for
> filesystem /home/subversion/intranet/db while opening
> environment:\nPermission denied', 160029)".. How do I get rid of this ?
>
> Regards
> Himanshu Raina
>
> --- On Fri, 22/8/08, David Weintraub <qazwart_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: David Weintraub <qazwart_at_gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: SVN + viewvc
> To: "Ryan Schmidt" <subversion-2008c_at_ryandesign.com>
> Cc: raina_himanshu_at_yahoo.com, users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Date: Friday, 22 August, 2008, 10:21 PM
>
> On Aug 22, 2008, at 11:02, David Weintraub wrote:
>>> Here's a possible solution:
>>>
>>> Run a cronjob to
>>>
>>> 1). Do a hotcopy of your subversion repository
>>> 2). Do a chown to the viewvc user
>>> 3). Do an rsync to a copy of your Subversion repository on your server
>>> where viewvc runs.
>>>
>>> This means that your commit results won't show up on viewvc until
> the
>>> next sync, but if you run the cronjob every ten minutes or so, it
>>> might be good enough.
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Ryan Schmidt
> <subversion-2008c_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:
>>
>> If you're going to do that, you may as well use svnsync in the
> post-commit
>> hook to get the copy of the repository on the viewvc server to be always
> up
>> to date.
>
> I was going to mention that svnsync doesn't do
>  what Himanshu needs:
> Having different users for both the source and destination
> repositories. I looked at the command when it first came out in
> Subversion 1.4, and simply didn't find it all that useful because of
> this issue.
>
> However, when checking out the Subversion book for revision 1.5, I see
> that svnsync now does handle different users in both the original and
> mirror repositories. Thus making it much more useful.
>
> So, the best solution is using "svnsync" to sync the two
> repositories:
> One the actual Subversion repository, and the other a mirror
> repository for ViewVC use. Getting SvnSync to work can take a little
> tinkering to get to work, but really no more than ViewVC (especially
> if you didn't have CGI scripting enabled in your Apache repository)
> and certainly a lot less than FishEye. Plus, the Subversion book is
> pretty clear about the steps to get it to work.
>  See
> <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.replication>
> for details.
>
> --
> David Weintraub
> qazwart_at_gmail.com
>
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