Re: Setting a web page at the repositories' parent URL
On Nov 5, 2010, at 10:12, Gingko wrote: According to the documentation, if I set a configuration like this one : Location /svn DAV svn SVNParentPath /var/lib/svn /Location ... I define a parent directory under which I can put all of my repositories. So I can access them like this : http://www.myserver.com/svn/my_first_repository/ http://www.myserver.com/svn/my_second_repository/ http://www.myserver.com/svn/my_third_repository/ http://www.myserver.com/svn/my_fourth_repository/ etc. But if I just type : http://www.myserver.com/svn/ I get a page like this one: -- Forbidden You don't have permission to access /svn/ on this server. Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.6.12 PHP/5.2.13 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 Server at www.myserver.com Port 80 -- This is quite ugly, and I saw several SVN servers exhibiting this behavior. Is there a way to put a web page on this location? (for example a blank page, or a page with links to the only repositories that I want to be publicly accessible for reading) The only option available is SVNListParentPath On which will give you a list of links to the available repositories.
Re: Setting a web page at the repositories' parent URL
On Nov 5, 2010, at 10:36, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Nov 5, 2010, at 10:12, Gingko wrote: Is there a way to put a web page on this location? (for example a blank page, or a page with links to the only repositories that I want to be publicly accessible for reading) The only option available is SVNListParentPath On which will give you a list of links to the available repositories. That is to say, SVNListParentPath is the only mod_dav_svn-specific option available to affect this. And there's also SVNIndexXSLT with which you can specify an XSLT stylesheet to change the appearance of that index. But you could probably make the web server deliver any other kind of page you wanted, by using the directives of the standard Apache modules (e.g. mod_alias, mod_rewrite, etc.).
RE: Setting a web page at the repositories' parent URL
Hi Gingko I have had success setting up several repositories in Apache as follows... In the httpd-subversion.conf file, I have the various repositories defined like this. Location /svn/repo1 SVNPath /path/to/repo1 . . . /Location Location /svn/repo2 SVNPath /path/to/repo2 . . . /Location Location /svn/repo3 SVNPath /path/to/repo3 . . . /Location Then when I hit http://server/svn/repo1, I get access to repo1, I hit http://server/svn/repo1, I get access to repo2, etc. If you use SVNParentPath instead of SVNPath, you can have issues so this seems to work well for me. As far as a web page goes, you could create a custom index.html that has all the links to the various repositories so if users just goes right to http://server, they see the custom index.html which has all the repository links. There should already be a default index.html in the Apache /htdocs folder that has It Works! in it. You could just back that one up and replace it with a new index.html that has the links to all the repositories. Regards, Mark -Original Message- From: Gingko [mailto:from_tig...@nospam.homelinux.org] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 11:12 AM To: Subversion User List Subject: Setting a web page at the repositories' parent URL Hello, I have a question concerning the mod_dav_svn module that Apache use for accessing the repositories. According to the documentation, if I set a configuration like this one : Location /svn DAV svn SVNParentPath /var/lib/svn /Location ... I define a parent directory under which I can put all of my repositories. So I can access them like this : http://www.myserver.com/svn/my_first_repository/ http://www.myserver.com/svn/my_second_repository/ http://www.myserver.com/svn/my_third_repository/ http://www.myserver.com/svn/my_fourth_repository/ etc. But if I just type : http://www.myserver.com/svn/ I get a page like this one: -- Forbidden You don't have permission to access /svn/ on this server. Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.6.12 PHP/5.2.13 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 Server at www.myserver.com Port 80 -- This is quite ugly, and I saw several SVN servers exhibiting this behavior. Is there a way to put a web page on this location? (for example a blank page, or a page with links to the only repositories that I want to be publicly accessible for reading) Best regards, GIngko
Re: Setting a web page at the repositories' parent URL
On Nov 5, 2010, at 13:50, Eramo, Mark wrote: I have had success setting up several repositories in Apache as follows... In the httpd-subversion.conf file, I have the various repositories defined like this. Location /svn/repo1 SVNPath /path/to/repo1 . . . /Location Location /svn/repo2 SVNPath /path/to/repo2 . . . /Location Location /svn/repo3 SVNPath /path/to/repo3 . . . /Location Then when I hit http://server/svn/repo1, I get access to repo1, I hit http://server/svn/repo1, I get access to repo2, etc. That's exactly what SVNParentPath is supposed to let you do more easily and concisely. As far as a web page goes, you could create a custom index.html that has all the links to the various repositories so if users just goes right to http://server, they see the custom index.html which has all the repository links. There should already be a default index.html in the Apache /htdocs folder that has It Works! in it. You could just back that one up and replace it with a new index.html that has the links to all the repositories. That's exactly what SVNListParentPath is for. If you use SVNParentPath instead of SVNPath, you can have issues so this seems to work well for me. What issues are you referring to?
RE: Setting a web page at the repositories' parent URL
I had issues with SVNParentPath but I think it was how I set it up. When I set it up the way I showed, it worked well. When I was doing this, I did not find docs that explained SVNParentPath well enough to me so maybe that is why I had the setup issues. Regards, Mark -Original Message- From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:subversion-20...@ryandesign.com] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 3:05 PM To: Eramo, Mark Cc: Subversion User List Subject: Re: Setting a web page at the repositories' parent URL On Nov 5, 2010, at 13:50, Eramo, Mark wrote: I have had success setting up several repositories in Apache as follows... In the httpd-subversion.conf file, I have the various repositories defined like this. Location /svn/repo1 SVNPath /path/to/repo1 . . . /Location Location /svn/repo2 SVNPath /path/to/repo2 . . . /Location Location /svn/repo3 SVNPath /path/to/repo3 . . . /Location Then when I hit http://server/svn/repo1, I get access to repo1, I hit http://server/svn/repo1, I get access to repo2, etc. That's exactly what SVNParentPath is supposed to let you do more easily and concisely. As far as a web page goes, you could create a custom index.html that has all the links to the various repositories so if users just goes right to http://server, they see the custom index.html which has all the repository links. There should already be a default index.html in the Apache /htdocs folder that has It Works! in it. You could just back that one up and replace it with a new index.html that has the links to all the repositories. That's exactly what SVNListParentPath is for. If you use SVNParentPath instead of SVNPath, you can have issues so this seems to work well for me. What issues are you referring to?
Re: Setting a web page at the repositories' parent URL
On Nov 5, 2010, at 14:11, Eramo, Mark wrote: Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Nov 5, 2010, at 13:50, Eramo, Mark wrote: I have had success setting up several repositories in Apache as follows... In the httpd-subversion.conf file, I have the various repositories defined like this. Location /svn/repo1 SVNPath /path/to/repo1 . . . /Location Location /svn/repo2 SVNPath /path/to/repo2 . . . /Location Location /svn/repo3 SVNPath /path/to/repo3 . . . /Location Then when I hit http://server/svn/repo1, I get access to repo1, I hit http://server/svn/repo1, I get access to repo2, etc. That's exactly what SVNParentPath is supposed to let you do more easily and concisely. As far as a web page goes, you could create a custom index.html that has all the links to the various repositories so if users just goes right to http://server, they see the custom index.html which has all the repository links. There should already be a default index.html in the Apache /htdocs folder that has It Works! in it. You could just back that one up and replace it with a new index.html that has the links to all the repositories. That's exactly what SVNListParentPath is for. If you use SVNParentPath instead of SVNPath, you can have issues so this seems to work well for me. What issues are you referring to? I had issues with SVNParentPath but I think it was how I set it up. When I set it up the way I showed, it worked well. When I was doing this, I did not find docs that explained SVNParentPath well enough to me so maybe that is why I had the setup issues. For what you showed, it should simply be: Location /svn/ SVNPath /path/to/ SVNListParentPath On /Location That's it.
Re: Setting a web page at the repositories' parent URL
On Nov 5, 2010, at 14:19, Ryan Schmidt wrote: For what you showed, it should simply be: Location /svn/ SVNPath /path/to/ SVNListParentPath On /Location And if I'd type it correctly, it would be: Location /svn/ DAV svn SVNParentPath /path/to/ SVNListParentPath On /Location
Re: Setting a web page at the repositories' parent URL
On Nov 5, 2010, at 14:38, Gingko wrote: That's exactly what SVNParentPath is supposed to let you do more easily and concisely. Except that it locks the possibility to have any other (custom) content at the parent path. As I said earlier in the thread, I'll guess you can already achieve that using mod_rewrite or possibly mod_alias.
Re: Setting a web page at the repositories' parent URL
- Original Message - From: Ryan Schmidt subversion-20...@ryandesign.com To: Gingko from_tig...@nospam.homelinux.org Cc: Subversion User List users@subversion.apache.org Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 8:48 PM Subject: Re: Setting a web page at the repositories' parent URL On Nov 5, 2010, at 14:38, Gingko wrote: That's exactly what SVNParentPath is supposed to let you do more easily and concisely. Except that it locks the possibility to have any other (custom) content at the parent path. As I said earlier in the thread, I'll guess you can already achieve that using mod_rewrite or possibly mod_alias. Of course. But I would say that this is a little less .. neat. (and also this will probably mean that I will have to put this page on another web site, or in a parent directory of the parent directory if there is one, as I will probably not be able to rewrite in such a way that I could access a page physically located at the SVN parent directory) Gingko
