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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Karl Fogel <kf...@newton.ch.collab.net> on 2002/10/03 15:10:37 UTC
Re: Help with svn and WebDAV?
> Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem /spare/svn/linux-2.4.19/db:
> Permission denied
I think this is your clue. What are the permissions on /spare/svn,
and what user & group is Apache2 running as? Does apache have
read-write access to the repository?
-Karl
pll@lanminds.com writes:
> I created a subversion repository:
>
> mkdir /spare/svn
> svnadmin create /spare/svn/linux-2.4.19
>
> And then imported the 2.4.19 kernel tree into it:
>
> svn import file:///spare/svn/linux-2.4.19/ /usr/src/linux \
> -m "imported 2.4.19 tree into svn"
>
> I added the following to my /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default file:
>
> <Location /svn>
> DAV svn
> SVNParentPath /spare/svn
> </Location>
>
> according to the directions on page 49 of "The Subversion Handbook".
>
> Yet, when I try to connect to what I think should be the correct URL
> (http://subversion-svr/svn), I get an "Access Forbidden"
> error in my browser, and the error.log says:
>
> [Thu Oct 03 11:05:23 2002] [error] [client 128.221.30.88] Could not fetch resource information. [403, #0]
> [Thu Oct 03 11:05:23 2002] [error] [client 128.221.30.88] (2)No such file or directory: The URI does not contain the name of a repository. [403, #190001]
>
>
> Using the URL, http://subversion-svr/svn/linux-2.4.19/, I get the
> error:
>
> Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem /spare/svn/linux-2.4.19/db:
> Permission denied
>
> in my browser, and the same thing in error.log.
>
> I'm completely new to Subversion *and* DAV, so I'm hoping someone can
> point me in the right direction :)
>
> Thanks,
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Re: Help with svn and WebDAV?
Posted by pl...@lanminds.com.
>>>>> On 3 Oct 2002, "Karl" == Karl Fogel wrote:
Karl> What are the permissions on /spare/svn, and what user & group
Karl> is Apache2 running as?
>>>>> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, "Rafael" == Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
Rafael> Is your repository writable by the user apache runs with ?
Ahh, okay, I added www-data to the group which owned the repository,
but I forgot to restart apache after that, so it was still running
with the old group memberships.
Thanks!
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Seeya,
Paul
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