> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Canfield [mailto:andy.canfield_at_pimco.mobi]
> Sent: 21 July 2011 13:19
> To: nkadel_at_gmail.com
> Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Subversion: existing users
>
>
>
> On 07/21/2011 05:55 PM, Andy Levy wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 06:12, Andy Canfield
> <andy.canfield_at_pimco.mobi> <mailto:andy.canfield_at_pimco.mobi> wrote:
>
> ADDENDUM ...
>
> I used root to create the /data/svn directory.
> Then, anticpiating problems,
> I did a chmod to make it writable to all.
>
>
> Giving global write permission will lead to problems as well.
> Different problems, but problems nonetheless.
>
>
> Later I ran svnadmin create /data/svn/sample
> and it created an entire
> repository directory tree under /data/svn. I
> don't remember but I probably
> ran it as root.
>
> I just now noticed that /data/svn/sample and
> all the sub-directories and
> files therein are owned by root and, usually,
> writable only by root. This is
> probably going to cause problems for Apache /
> mod_dav_svn which, of course,
> runs as the 'apache user' ("www-data") instead of root.
>
> Where did I go wrong? The manual talks about
> commands but does not seem to
> talk about what user is executing the command.
> Do I have to run svnadmin as
> www-data? Is there a way to create a repository
> using my browser?
>
>
> Your repository directory (the one you created with
> svnadmin create)
> should be owned by www-data (or whatever account your
> server process
> executes under). It doesn't matter whether you run
> svnadmin create as
> that user, or run it as another user and then change ownership.
>
>
> OK, restart again. The new commands to create the
> RepositoryParent directory are:
> mkdir /data/svn
> sudo chown www-data.www-data svn
I don't use *nix much but shouldn't that be `chown -R ...`?
> This results in
> drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 2011-07-21 19:01 /data/svn
> Here is the command I used to create a repository:
> sudo -u www-data svnadmin create /data/svn/sample3
> Now we have
> drwxr-xr-x 6 www-data www-data 4096 2011-07-21 19:01
> /data/svn/sample3
> -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 229 2011-07-21 19:01
> /data/svn/sample3/README.txt
> etc.
>
> When I point my browser to http://localhost/svn/sample3 I
> still get this short page:
> sample3 - Revision 0: /
> Powered by Subversion version 1.6.12 (r955767).
> so I still suspect that the browser interface is incapable of
> performing any action, including creating a repository, and
> is also incapable of giving me a list of repositories.
It WILL give you a list of reporsitories _under_a_parent_root_ IF you
configure it correctly. Of course this tends to be easier (and less
secure?) under windoze... As has been mentioned in other posts, you
need to give mod_dav_svn TWO directives:
SVNParentPath D:/svn/
SVNListParentPath On
What are you expecting the browser interface to give you? It provides a
fairly simple, read-only interface to the repositories it is configured
to serve. There are tools (ViewVC etc) that provide more functionality
but general operation is NOT through the browser but a subversion client
that happens to use https (etc) as the communication patheway. (I
notice Andy Levy has addressed this point better than I)
~ mark c
Received on 2011-07-21 14:28:29 CEST