On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Necati Mercan <bonnechance.m...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using svn-version 1.4.6, apache version 2.2.8 on an ubuntu 8.04 LTS. > On the client side, mostly win xp with tortoisesvn. > > The setup is using https and path-based-authorization and everything was > working fine. > Users are separated into different groups, not everyone has access > everywhere and on every repository. > > The situation at hand. In the authorization file dav_svn.authz: > > [myrepo:/] > @G_everyone= > @G_general_myrepo_group=rw > > [myrepo:/foobar] > @G_special=rw > > This setup worked until "foobar" got renamed into "foo bar". I want to give > also the @G_special access to the folder "foo bar". > > How do I specify a folder with whitespaces in its name? Tried single quotes, > double quotes, %20 but to be honest it is irritating. > Simply don't know truly how the modules and apache interact and work, > therefore no clue how to specify the path in the auth-file.
Can't you just not use folders with spaces in the names? You can avoid a world of scripting and software management pain by not doing this.
