Authentication failure when SVNParentPath used

[Raghu GS <ra...@gmail.com>]

Hello Everybody

I regret for bugging you once again.
Apache authentication for the particular repository is failing when i use 
SVNParentPath, but working well when i use repo:/ instead of folder1:/repo1 
in svnauthz file even without changing the apache configuration.

I'll show my configuration below

SVNAuthz file.

[folder1:/repo1]
john = rw
joe = rw

Apache configuration

<Location /parentfolder/folder1>
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
                DAV svn
                SVNParentPath /srv/svn/parentfolder/folder1
                AuthType Basic
                AuthName "svn repository"
                AuthUserFile /srv/svn/config/userauthentication.conf
                Require valid-user
                AuthzSVNAccessFile /srv/svn/config/svnauthz.conf
</Location>

Please assist me in resolving the issue.

Re: Authentication failure when SVNParentPath used

[BRM <bm...@yahoo.com>]

> From: Raghu GS <ra...@gmail.com>

>To: users@subversion.apache.org 
>Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 8:46 AM
>Subject: Authentication failure when SVNParentPath used
>I regret for bugging you once again.
>Apache authentication for the particular repository is failing when i use 
>SVNParentPath, but working well when i use repo:/ instead of folder1:/repo1 
>in svnauthz file even without changing the apache configuration.
>
>I'll show my configuration below
>
>SVNAuthz file.
>
>[folder1:/repo1]
>john = rw
>joe = rw
>
>Apache configuration
>
><Location /parentfolder/folder1>
>                Order allow,deny
>                Allow from all
>                DAV svn
>                SVNParentPath /srv/svn/parentfolder/folder1
>                AuthType Basic
>                AuthName "svn repository"
>                AuthUserFile /srv/svn/config/userauthentication.conf
>                Require valid-user
>                AuthzSVNAccessFile /srv/svn/config/svnauthz.conf
></Location>
>
>Please assist me in resolving the issue.


If you want to use the SVNParentPath directive to specify multiple repositories then you also need to set the Location directive to something different than you are thinking.
<Location ..> directive should only point to the URL path of the base of the repository (single repository) or parent folder (SVNParentPath directive).

Thus, you really want:
<Location /parentfolder >
  ...
  SVNParentPath /svn/svn/parentfolder
 ...

</Location>

All else being the same.

HTH,


Ben

RE: Authentication failure when SVNParentPath used

["Cooke, Mark" <ma...@siemens.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raghu GS [mailto:raghugs@gmail.com] 
> Sent: 15 January 2013 13:46
> To: users@subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Authentication failure when SVNParentPath used
> 
> Hello Everybody
> 
> I regret for bugging you once again.
> Apache authentication for the particular repository is 
> failing when i use 
> SVNParentPath, but working well when i use repo:/ instead of 
> folder1:/repo1 
> in svnauthz file even without changing the apache configuration.
> 
> I'll show my configuration below
> 
> SVNAuthz file.
> 
> [folder1:/repo1]
> john = rw
> joe = rw

According to http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.serverconfig.pathbasedauthz.html (and my own files), the repository folder comes before the in-repo folder.

So, in your example above: "folder1" would be the on-disk folder under ParentPath for the repo data files, whilst "repo1" would be a top-level folder name within the repository structure.

I'm not sure from your names if that is what your example is showing?

~ Mark C

> Apache configuration
> 
> <Location /parentfolder/folder1>
>                 Order allow,deny
>                 Allow from all
>                 DAV svn
>                 SVNParentPath /srv/svn/parentfolder/folder1
>                 AuthType Basic
>                 AuthName "svn repository"
>                 AuthUserFile /srv/svn/config/userauthentication.conf
>                 Require valid-user
>                 AuthzSVNAccessFile /srv/svn/config/svnauthz.conf
> </Location>
> 
> Please assist me in resolving the issue.
> 
>