mod_dav_svn: nested Location warning
Dear All, I have just upgraded from Apache HTTPD 2.2 --> 2.4. My svn repository seems to work fine over https but I get these repeated warnings: [:warn] [pid 15721] mod_dav_svn: nested Location '/repos/thereponame' hinders access to '' in SVNPath Location '/repos/thereponame' My httpd.conf file contains this: ## ## project related HTML files ## Alias /repos/srv/svn/html Options +Indexes +Multiviews -FollowSymLinks IndexOptionsFancyIndexing \ ScanHTMLTitles \ NameWidth=* \ DescriptionWidth=* \ SuppressLastModified \ SuppressSize order allow,deny allow from all DAV svn SVNPath /srv/svn/repos/thereponame SVNIndexXSLT "/repos-web/view/repos-thereponame.xsl" # Include per-directory access control policy AuthzSVNAccessFile /srv/svn/user_access/thereponame_authz # Limit write permission to list of valid users. # # Require SSL connection for password protection. SSLRequireSSL AuthType Basic AuthName "Authorization Realm" AuthUserFile /srv/svn/user_access/thereponame_passwd Require valid-user # What have I done wrong? Thanks, Chris.
Re: mod_dav_svn: nested Location warning
Hi Mark, Thanks for getting back to me. I added this to avoid a 404 error for https://myserver/repos/ The /srv/svn/html folder is completely empty. C. On 22/10/2013 15:00, Cooke, Mark wrote: -Original Message- From: Chris Rodgers [mailto:christopher.rodg...@cardiov.ox.ac.uk] Sent: 22 October 2013 11:15 Dear All, I have just upgraded from Apache HTTPD 2.2 --> 2.4. My svn repository seems to work fine over https but I get these repeated warnings: [:warn] [pid 15721] mod_dav_svn: nested Location '/repos/thereponame' hinders access to '' in SVNPath Location '/repos/thereponame' My httpd.conf file contains this: ## ## project related HTML files ## Alias /repos/srv/svn/html Options +Indexes +Multiviews -FollowSymLinks IndexOptionsFancyIndexing \ ScanHTMLTitles \ NameWidth=* \ DescriptionWidth=* \ SuppressLastModified \ SuppressSize order allow,deny allow from all DAV svn SVNPath /srv/svn/repos/thereponame SVNIndexXSLT "/repos-web/view/repos-thereponame.xsl" # Include per-directory access control policy AuthzSVNAccessFile /srv/svn/user_access/thereponame_authz # Limit write permission to list of valid users. # # Require SSL connection for password protection. SSLRequireSSL AuthType Basic AuthName "Authorization Realm" AuthUserFile /srv/svn/user_access/thereponame_passwd Require valid-user # What have I done wrong? What are you trying to achieve with your `/repos` alias? Are you trying to server mulitple repos from that root but apply special handling to a specific path? The location directive serves one specific repo without the need for the alias, I would guess you could just remove that (but I might be wrong!) ~ mark c Thanks, Chris.
Re: mod_dav_svn: nested Location warning
...but what should be there? If you want a list of repositories then I would suggest investigating the `SVNParentPath` directive. 1/ If you comment out the alias directive, does you svn work ok? 2/ what are you trying to serve via the `/repos` URL? ~ Mark C Hi Mark, 1) Yes, SVN does then work OK. But I then get a 404 error from https://server/repos/ 2) I am using the http://www.reposstyle.com/ style sheet, so each repository root has an "Up" button in the HTML page that is served... I wanted a blank directory listing with a quick ".." link for getting back to the server root. The intention was not to reveal the repos names whilst avoiding the dead link from the repo root folder. I still don't really understand the need for this warning: There is no folder "thereponame" in /srv/svn/html so nothing actually conflicts. If I removed the Alias, wouldn't there still be a potential-but-not-in-fact conflict between a path on disk /htdocs/repos/thereponame (which doesn't exist) and the repository URL https://server/repos/thereponame/ ?? C.
Re: mod_dav_svn: nested Location warning
...but what should be there? If you want a list of repositories then I would suggest investigating the `SVNParentPath` directive. 1/ If you comment out the alias directive, does you svn work ok? 2/ what are you trying to serve via the `/repos` URL? ~ Mark C I have also just noticed that the warning is still being generated even without the Alias directive. Do you have any further ideas for what I can try / if this matters? Chris.
Re: mod_dav_svn: nested Location warning
Dear Mark and Ryan, Thank you for your comments. I am trying to serve a number of repositories from one server via https with different IP range restrictions applied to each. I do not want to show the names of the repositories to clients requesting https://server/repos/ . I am getting warnings like this in my logs and wanted to know if they matter. [Thu Oct 24 09:52:58.087560 2013] [:warn] [pid 23502] mod_dav_svn: nested Location '/repos/thereponame' hinders access to '' in SVNPath Location '/repos/thereponame' In light of your helpful suggestions, I have removed all mentions of "/repos" from the httpd config. I now have a set of blocks like this, one per repository: DAV svn SVNPath /srv/svn/repos/thereponame SVNIndexXSLT "/repos-web/view/repos-thereponame.xsl" # Include per-directory access control policy AuthzSVNAccessFile /srv/svn/user_access/thereponame_authz # Require SSL connection for password protection. SSLRequireSSL AuthType Basic AuthName "Authorization Realm" AuthUserFile /srv/svn/user_access/thereponame_passwd Require valid-user And I still get the warnings! Is there something wrong with my config or should I simply ignore the warnings...? Best wishes, Chris
RE: mod_dav_svn: nested Location warning
Good question.. Yes I have! And I can see the change because https://server/repos/ now gives a 404 which it didn't originally. C -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Query about warnings: mod_dav_svn: nested Location '/repos/reponame' hinders access to '' in SVNPath Location '/repos/reponame'
Dear Subversion team, I run subversion on a Fedora 26 machine, with Apache 2.4.27 and Subversion mod_dav_svn 1.9.7 installed from the Fedora repositories. I see lots of errors like this in my httpd error_log: > [Thu Oct 05 10:53:19.131284 2017] [:warn] [pid 30014] mod_dav_svn: > nested Location '/repos/reponame' hinders access to '' in SVNPath > Location '/repos/reponame' Here is the section for this repository in /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf: > > DAV svn > SVNPath /srv/svn/repos/reponame > SVNIndexXSLT "/repos-web/view/repos-reponame.xsl" > > # Include per-directory access control policy > AuthzSVNAccessFile /srv/svn/user_access/reponame_authz > > # Require SSL connection for password protection. > SSLRequireSSL > > AuthType Basic > AuthName "Authorization Realm" > AuthUserFile /srv/svn/user_access/reponame_passwd > Require valid-user > There are other equivalent blocks too. How can I suppress this warning? / Does it matter? Things I previously tried: 1. Per https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/subversion_users/kQNOHEYjjvs I grepped all files in /etc/httpd to check. I do not have any nested Location blocks in my config. 2. Again per https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/subversion_users/kQNOHEYjjvs I adjusted the Location block to and SVNPath /srv/svn/repos/reponame to SVNPath /srv/svn/repos/reponame/ (i.e. adding a trailing slash). But this did not remove the warning, AND it meant that a svn clients now show an error accessing the repository root: > $ svn ls 'https://hostname/repos/reponame' > svn: E175002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL > 'https://hostname/repos/reponame' > svn: E175002: The OPTIONS request returned invalid XML in the > response: XML parse error at line 1: no element found > (https://hostname/repos/reponame) > > and > > $ svn ls > 'https://cardiosvn.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/repos/crodgers/' > > > svn: E175002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL > 'https://hostname/repos/reponame' > svn: E175002: The OPTIONS request returned invalid XML in the > response: XML parse error at line 1: no element found > (https://hostname/repos/reponame) > > Note that the two svn ls commands both send a URL to the server (seen in the access_log) WITHOUT the trailing slash. Using Chrome web browser, I see a 404 error at https://hostname/repos/reponame (correctly I think - there is no such file in the httpd web root folder) and I see the repository listing at https://hostname/repos/reponame/ Using TortoiseSVN's repository browser FAILS with this setup with an XML error like the command line. svn ls, Chrome, and TortoiseSVN's repository browser can access folders within the repository OK, e.g. svn ls 'https://hostname/repos/reponame/dir1' or svn ls 'https://hostname/repos/reponame/dir1/' are both fine. Best wishes, Chris.
Re: Query about warnings: mod_dav_svn: nested Location '/repos/reponame' hinders access to '' in SVNPath Location '/repos/reponame'
Hi Daniel, You were right about the double Include of the subversion.conf file. Thank you! Best wishes, Chris.
