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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Jerome Asselin <je...@crchum.qc.ca> on 2005/09/16 19:43:45 UTC
request failed: 301 Moved Permanently
Hello,
For the last two days, I've been trying to get started with
subversion-1.1.1-2.1 on RHEL 4 AS. I run the following without any error
until the last two svn commands.
su -
cd /var/www/html
mkdir svn
cd svn
svnadmin create repos
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/svn
wget https://localhost/svn/repos -q -O - # Displays "Revision 0: ..."
$ svn checkout https://localhost/svn/repos wc
svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/repos'
svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/repos': 301 Moved Permanently (https://localhost)
$ svn mkdir https://localhost/svn/repos/branches
svn: OPTIONS request failed on '/svn/repos'
svn: OPTIONS of '/svn/repos': 301 Moved Permanently (https://localhost)
svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
svn: 'svn-commit.tmp'
Has anybody seen this behavior before? What am I doing wrong?
My apache config includes this:
<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /var/www/html/svn
<LimitExcept >
order allow,deny
allow from all
</LimitExcept>
</Location>
Thanks for any help,
Jerome
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Re: request failed: 301 Moved Permanently
Posted by Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>.
On Sep 19, 2005, at 13:15, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>>> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#http-301-error
>
> Ok. What I think the FAQ entry means is that the SVNPath directive
> points to /www/www/foo, so that both the location and the DocumentRoot
> resolve to the exact same physical path... I agree that it's not very
> clear from the entry text.
>
> Do you have any idea what happens if you try it my way? Or can you
> test and report back? I'll update the entry with your findings.
Sorry, I don't have time to test this right now. Maybe someone else
does?
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Re: request failed: 301 Moved Permanently
Posted by Erik Huelsmann <eh...@gmail.com>.
On 9/19/05, Jerome Asselin <je...@crchum.qc.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 13:15 +0200, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> > On 9/19/05, Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com> wrote:
> > > On Sep 18, 2005, at 23:21, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> > >
> > > > http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#http-301-error
> > >
> > > As an Apache administrator, I gotta say I'm pretty baffled by what's
> > > being said there:
> > >
> > > > For example, if you've exported a repository as <Location /www/
> > > > foo>, but you've also set your DocumentRoot to be /www, then you're
> > > > in trouble. When the request comes in for /www/foo/bar, apache
> > > > doesn't know whether to find a real file named /foo/bar within your
> > > > DocumentRoot, or whether to ask mod_dav_svn to fetch a file /bar
> > > > from the /www/foo repository. Usually the former case wins, and
> > > > hence the "Moved Permanently" error.
> > > >
> > > > The solution is to make sure your repository <Location> does not
> > > > overlap or live within any areas already exported as normal web
> > > > shares.
> > >
>
> Thanks for the FAQ link! I've managed to get it to work by placing my
> svn repository outside the scope of the DocumentRoot. That way, I CANNOT
> get a listings the repositories at https://archivos/svn,
Yup. That's correct, but: I just saw a commit pass by which makes this
possible in 1.3 with an Apache configurantion directive!
> but I can check
> out the repository with:
>
> svn checkout https://localhost/svn/repos wc
>
> My apache settings are:
>
> DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
> <Location /svn>
> DAV svn
> SVNParentPath /var/www/svn
> # etc.
> </Location>
bye,
Erik.
Re: request failed: 301 Moved Permanently
Posted by Jerome Asselin <je...@crchum.qc.ca>.
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 13:15 +0200, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> On 9/19/05, Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com> wrote:
> > On Sep 18, 2005, at 23:21, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> >
> > > http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#http-301-error
> >
> > As an Apache administrator, I gotta say I'm pretty baffled by what's
> > being said there:
> >
> > > For example, if you've exported a repository as <Location /www/
> > > foo>, but you've also set your DocumentRoot to be /www, then you're
> > > in trouble. When the request comes in for /www/foo/bar, apache
> > > doesn't know whether to find a real file named /foo/bar within your
> > > DocumentRoot, or whether to ask mod_dav_svn to fetch a file /bar
> > > from the /www/foo repository. Usually the former case wins, and
> > > hence the "Moved Permanently" error.
> > >
> > > The solution is to make sure your repository <Location> does not
> > > overlap or live within any areas already exported as normal web
> > > shares.
> >
Thanks for the FAQ link! I've managed to get it to work by placing my
svn repository outside the scope of the DocumentRoot. That way, I CANNOT
get a listings the repositories at https://archivos/svn, but I can check
out the repository with:
svn checkout https://localhost/svn/repos wc
My apache settings are:
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /var/www/svn
# etc.
</Location>
Cheers,
Jerome
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Re: request failed: 301 Moved Permanently
Posted by Erik Huelsmann <eh...@gmail.com>.
On 9/19/05, Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com> wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2005, at 23:21, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#http-301-error
>
> As an Apache administrator, I gotta say I'm pretty baffled by what's
> being said there:
>
> > For example, if you've exported a repository as <Location /www/
> > foo>, but you've also set your DocumentRoot to be /www, then you're
> > in trouble. When the request comes in for /www/foo/bar, apache
> > doesn't know whether to find a real file named /foo/bar within your
> > DocumentRoot, or whether to ask mod_dav_svn to fetch a file /bar
> > from the /www/foo repository. Usually the former case wins, and
> > hence the "Moved Permanently" error.
> >
> > The solution is to make sure your repository <Location> does not
> > overlap or live within any areas already exported as normal web
> > shares.
>
> There are so many things wrong with this entry, I barely know where
> to begin. Apache "doesnt't know" what to do and will therefore
> "usually" do it this certain way? No, sorry; I don't buy that: Apache
> is not a random number generator. Apache will either always do it one
> way, or always another, but it won't switch between them on a whim.
>
> To the rest of it, let's try to construct this example the FAQ entry
> seems to be talking about.
>
> <VirtualHost *:80>
> ServerName example.com
> DocumentRoot /www
> <Location /www/foo>
> SVNPath /data/svn
Ok. What I think the FAQ entry means is that the SVNPath directive
points to /www/www/foo, so that both the location and the DocumentRoot
resolve to the exact same physical path... I agree that it's not very
clear from the entry text.
Do you have any idea what happens if you try it my way? Or can you
test and report back? I'll update the entry with your findings.
bye,
Erik.
Re: request failed: 301 Moved Permanently
Posted by Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>.
On Sep 18, 2005, at 23:21, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#http-301-error
As an Apache administrator, I gotta say I'm pretty baffled by what's
being said there:
> For example, if you've exported a repository as <Location /www/
> foo>, but you've also set your DocumentRoot to be /www, then you're
> in trouble. When the request comes in for /www/foo/bar, apache
> doesn't know whether to find a real file named /foo/bar within your
> DocumentRoot, or whether to ask mod_dav_svn to fetch a file /bar
> from the /www/foo repository. Usually the former case wins, and
> hence the "Moved Permanently" error.
>
> The solution is to make sure your repository <Location> does not
> overlap or live within any areas already exported as normal web
> shares.
There are so many things wrong with this entry, I barely know where
to begin. Apache "doesnt't know" what to do and will therefore
"usually" do it this certain way? No, sorry; I don't buy that: Apache
is not a random number generator. Apache will either always do it one
way, or always another, but it won't switch between them on a whim.
To the rest of it, let's try to construct this example the FAQ entry
seems to be talking about.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
DocumentRoot /www
<Location /www/foo>
SVNPath /data/svn
# etc.
</Location>
# etc.
</VirtualHost>
This virtual host definition should be absolutely valid. DocumentRoot
refers to filesystem paths on the server's hard disk. Location refers
to URL paths in web space. As the Apache manual goes to some pains to
explain, web-space URLs need not have any correlation with filesystem
paths. So the above virtual host definition would mean that the web
site which is stored on the hard disk at /www is available under the
URL http://example.com/ and that a repository which is on the hard
disk at /data/svn is available under the URL http://example.com/www/
foo. It's unclear to me why anyone would want to hide a repository
under the web-space URL path /www, but that's what the example said,
so that's what we'll do.
I'm particularly unclear on what the FAQ entry is trying to say when
it talks about a request coming in for /www/foo/bar and how Apache
will be confused by this. Is it talking about the web-space URL
http://example.com/www/foo/bar? If so, it should be handled without
issue by the Location directive, and would mean "the directory /bar
in the repository." Were the Location directive not there, it would
map to the filesystem path /www/www/foo/bar. So no problem exists.
Reading on in the paragraph, though, it seems it's actually talking
about a request for http://example.com/foo/bar, which would translate
to the filesystem path /www/foo/bar. This is not a problem at all;
the web-space path /foo/bar does not match the Location directive /
www/foo, so the files in the filesystem at /www/foo/bar are
delivered, and again no problem exists.
I really don't see why the FAQ entry seems to think that DocumentRoot
and Location are somehow related. What you specify in your
DocumentRoot parameter should have no bearing on how you configure
your Location tags. What am I missing? Or, more to the point, what is
this FAQ entry missing? The FAQ entry was written, meaning someone
had a problem at some point, but they certainly didn't have the
problem the FAQ entry describes, since, as I've shown, no problem
exists in that scenario.
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Re: request failed: 301 Moved Permanently
Posted by Erik Huelsmann <eh...@gmail.com>.
On 9/16/05, Jerome Asselin <je...@crchum.qc.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For the last two days, I've been trying to get started with
> subversion-1.1.1-2.1 on RHEL 4 AS. I run the following without any error
> until the last two svn commands.
>
> su -
> cd /var/www/html
> mkdir svn
> cd svn
> svnadmin create repos
> chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/svn
>
> wget https://localhost/svn/repos -q -O - # Displays "Revision 0: ..."
>
> $ svn checkout https://localhost/svn/repos wc
> svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/repos'
> svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/repos': 301 Moved Permanently (https://localhost)
> $ svn mkdir https://localhost/svn/repos/branches
> svn: OPTIONS request failed on '/svn/repos'
> svn: OPTIONS of '/svn/repos': 301 Moved Permanently (https://localhost)
> svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
> svn: 'svn-commit.tmp'
>
> Has anybody seen this behavior before? What am I doing wrong?
>
> My apache config includes this:
>
> <Location /svn>
> DAV svn
> SVNParentPath /var/www/html/svn
> <LimitExcept >
> order allow,deny
> allow from all
> </LimitExcept>
> </Location>
>
> Thanks for any help,
http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#http-301-error
HTH,
Erik.