problem using apache as the server

[Alex Li <li...@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

Newbie here.  I cannot access my subversion repository through
apache.  I have recently set up subversion (0.26) on Debian.
I can do operations using the command line, such as:

svn xxx file:///path/to/repos

I wanted to provide network access.  I set up apache, with all 
necessary modules.  Apache starts up fine, with no error message, 
and the default home page can be reached.

I followed the guide and added the neccessary bits to httpd.conf.
But when I try to access that directory through a web browser,
an error message return:

Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem
/home/system/svn/repos/db: Permission denied.

When I tried it on the command line, using svn list http://...
(I can still access the repository using svn xxx file://xxx),
I got this error:

svn: RA layer request failed
svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/repos'
svn: PROPFIND of '/repos': 500 Internal Server Error
(http://192.168.1.12:83)

When I checked the apache error log, I got this:

[Fri Aug 22 13:04:21 2003] [error] [client 192.168.1.12] Could not
fetch resource information.  [500, #0]
[Fri Aug 22 13:04:21 2003] [error] [client 192.168.1.12] Could not open
the SVN filesystem at /home/system/svn/repos  [500, #160029]
[Fri Aug 22 13:04:21 2003] [error] [client 192.168.1.12] (13)Permission
denied: Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem
/home/system/svn/repos/db:
Permission denied  [500, #160029]

I have checked the read/write access to repos/dav and db by su'ing into
www-data, which is what my webserver run as.

So what gives?

Thanks for your help,
Alex

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Re: problem using apache as the server

[Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>]

Alex Li <li...@yahoo.com> writes:
 
> Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem
> /home/system/svn/repos/db: Permission denied.
[...]
> [Fri Aug 22 13:04:21 2003] [error] [client 192.168.1.12] (13)Permission
> denied: Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem
> /home/system/svn/repos/db:
> Permission denied  [500, #160029]

So that's two times now, BerkeleyDB has said there's a permission problem.

> 
> I have checked the read/write access to repos/dav and db by su'ing into
> www-data, which is what my webserver run as.
> 
> So what gives?

Why don't you show us an 'ls -l' of your repository?  For some reason,
user 'www-data' is unable to read/write to all of your db files.


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