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Re: SVN over NFS

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2010b_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:48:41 -0500

On Jul 23, 2010, at 04:09, Bastien Semene wrote:

> [Tue Jul 20 15:40:08 2010] [error] [client 10.1.8.123] (20014)Internal error: Can't open file '/var/db/svn/repos/favicon.ico/format': No such file or directory, referer: http://domain.com/repo/

> Also, can anyone explain me the first line of the logs, what is doing "favicon.ico/format" here ?

Web browsers request the file "favicon.ico" at the root of any domain they visit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

You are apparently using SVNParentPath inside a "Location /" block, which means *all* web requests, including those for favicon.ico, will be directed to Subversion to handle. SVNParentPath tells Subversion to handle the first component of the URL as a repository name, so it tries to access a repository called "favicon.ico"; because you don't have a repository by that name, an error is written to the log. For these and various other reasons it is often recommended not to use a "Location /" block for Subversion, but to use some subdirectory of the web space instead (i.e. "Location /svn/").
Received on 2010-07-23 11:49:24 CEST

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