subversion webdav reports "Forbidden"

bl00mie

I just emerged subversion and followed the instructions found here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Subversion.

import and checkout seem to work fine. i created some test files in a directory called testRepository.

$ svn import testRepository file:///var/svn/repos
-and-
$ svn co file:///var/svn/repos testRepository

both did what one would expect...

Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the apache2 + webdav stuff to work. Here are the appropriate files:

/etc/apache2/conf/modules.d/47_mod_dav_svn.conf :

Tuna · Guru Joined: 19 Jul 2002 Posts: 485 Location: Berlin

try changing the permission on the filesystem. the apache user needs read/write access to the repository directory and its subdirs.

bl00mie · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 2:14 pm Post subject:

originally, i set it up to be owned by my user account, with group svnusers, and in /etc/group i have apache listed as a member of svnusers. but i read some information on the web and your post saying that it might permissions, so i:

# chown -R apache:apache /var/svn

and nothing changed. still forbidden. any other ideas?

its1louder · Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 1:39 am Post subject:

I have the exact same problem as described above. I didn't follow the wiki directions but used this in commonapache2.conf instead:

ronnie · n00b Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 66

Did you also try adding "-D DAV_FS" to apache opts? See also apache error_log for hints.

toralf · Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 9:25 am Post subject:

Maedhros · Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 10:03 am Post subject:

Moved from Unsupported Software.
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its1louder · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 2:13 am Post subject:

its1louder · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 3:11 am Post subject:

I gave up on SVNParentPath. I replaced the single location /svn with multiple location tags one for each repository and put the SVNPath to each one. For some reason, this works where SVNPArentPath hadn't. It would be nice to not have to bloat out commonapache2.conf every time with a new location section when ever I start a new project, but for right now I have no choice - I need it to work now.
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ronnie · n00b Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 66

This is from my /etc/apache2/conf/modules.d/47_mod_dav_svn.conf and works like a charm:

its1louder · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:03 pm Post subject:

Its pretty clear that my problem relates to AuthzSVNAccessFile. I don't know exactly what this is and how to set it up. I think it is related to the ability to control who is allowed to do what. I'm not real concerned about that right now - I don't allow anonymous so everyone knows who did what change but I don't have a reason to restrict access differntially across repositories and users.

Basicly, I get the functionality I need, which is multiple independent projects accessible through trac or the SubVersion/webdav clients. My conf files are not as clean and concise as I would like. And I can't just create new subversion directories and have them be accessible the way SVNParentPath lets you - I have to add a new location tag. But new projects are relatively rare so I can live with that overhead for now. I'd like to fix this problem but I will have to let it slide for now since I have a reasonable if inelegant workaround.

Some day I'll get it ironed out, and then I'll post it here, but probably not anytime soon.
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thomasa88 · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:12 pm Post subject:

I get the forbidden problem too, in my case apache tries [DocumentRoot]/svn/repos. I know my settings are ok cuz it worked the first time but not the other

I found it does this by trying without ssl (e.g. http://) and saw in the error log that it tries the DocumenRoot instead of the defined location :S
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