On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Andy Canfield <andy.canfi...@pimco.mobi>wrote:
> ** > Thank you very much. > > > On 07/20/2011 12:19 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Andy Canfield<andy.canfi...@pimco.mobi> > <andy.canfi...@pimco.mobi> wrote: > > One thing has hit my mind today that I don't think you realize ... > > I have never, in my entire life, seen a working Subversion system. > > Apparently Subversion, as distributed, doesn't work - the access > authentications are deliberately turned off. > > I'm afraid it depends on your access requirements. Seriously. Which > access technology are you using? svn+ssh (which I tend to recommend), > or Apache (using https://), or svn directorly (svn://) Start with that > and we'll walk you through it. > > > OK, here goes. > > I would like to use http/https. I am not supposed to be working on the > server, but on my notebook workstation. And svn or svn+ssh require port 3690 > to be forwarded by the router, and we don't own the router. So I would > prefer http and/or https. > > But on the actual server https is screwed up because mod_dev_svn.so is a > year earlier than Apache, and apparently there is a version mismatch. When > svn is enabled apache is dead. I have put in a request for my friend to > re-install, but that could take a week. > > So for the interim I have installed mod_dav etc. on my notebook computer. > FYI it is running Ubuntu Linux 1.04. This is for testing. > > Directory /etc/apache2/modes-enabled contains the file dav.load with this > contents: > * LoadModule dav_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_dav.so* > That same directoy also contains the file dav_syn.load with these contents: > * # Depends: dav > LoadModule dav_svn_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_dav_svn.so > LoadModule authz_svn_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_svn.so* > That same directory also contains the file dav_svn.conf which I altered; > this is the altered contents: > *# dav_svn.conf - Example Subversion/Apache configuration > # > # For details and further options see the Apache user manual and > # the Subversion book. > # > # NOTE: for a setup with multiple vhosts, you will want to do this > # configuration in /etc/apache2/sites-available/*, not here. > > # <Location URL> ... </Location> > # URL controls how the repository appears to the outside world. > # In this example clients access the repository as http://hostname/svn/ > # Note, a literal /svn should NOT exist in your document root. > > <Location /svn> > > # Uncomment this to enable the repository > DAV svn > > # Set this to the path to your repository > #SVNPath /var/lib/svn > > # Alternatively, use SVNParentPath if you have multiple repositories > under > # under a single directory (/var/lib/svn/repo1, /var/lib/svn/repo2, ...). > # You need either SVNPath and SVNParentPath, but not both. > #SVNParentPath /var/lib/svn > SVNParentPath /data/svn > > > # Access control is done at 3 levels: (1) Apache authentication, via > # any of several methods. A "Basic Auth" section is commented out > # below. (2) Apache <Limit> and <LimitExcept>, also commented out > # below. (3) mod_authz_svn is a svn-specific authorization module > # which offers fine-grained read/write access control for paths > # within a repository. (The first two layers are coarse-grained; you > # can only enable/disable access to an entire repository.) Note that > # mod_authz_svn is noticeably slower than the other two layers, so if > # you don't need the fine-grained control, don't configure it. > > # Basic Authentication is repository-wide. It is not secure unless > # you are using https. See the 'htpasswd' command to create and > # manage the password file - and the documentation for the > # 'auth_basic' and 'authn_file' modules, which you will need for this > # (enable them with 'a2enmod'). > #AuthType Basic > #AuthName "Subversion Repository" > #AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd > AuthType Basic > AuthName "Lenny Subversion Repository" > > AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd > > # To enable authorization via mod_authz_svn > #AuthzSVNAccessFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.authz > > # The following three lines allow anonymous read, but make > # committers authenticate themselves. It requires the 'authz_user' > # module (enable it with 'a2enmod'). > #<LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT> > #Require valid-user > #</LimitExcept> > * > * Require valid-user* > * > </Location> > * > By the way, all three of the above files in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled are > actually symbolic links to the same file name in ../mods-available. > > I used sudo htpasswd to create the /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd file: > * andy:4izmp7W8TSqww* > > Also I created my subversion directory like this:\ > * sudo bash > mkdir /data/svn > chmod a+w /data/svn* > *ls /data/svn > ** drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2011-07-21 10:53 /data/svn* > > Now I point my browser to http://localhost/svn and I get a prompt for a > user name and password. If I type in my valid user name "andy" and a > completely spurious password, I get prompted again. But if I type in my > valid user name and password (as given when I created the dav_svn.passwd > file), the result is: > * Forbidden > You don't have permission to access /svn on this server. > Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80* > > Of course the /data/svn file is completely empty; there's nothing in it. > OK, so I try to put something in it: > * svnadmin create /data/svn/sample > * > Now when I point my browser at http://localhost/svn I get the same > "Forbidden" message as before. However, when I point my browser to > "http://localhost/svn/sample"; <http://localhost/svn/sample> I see a very > simple web page: > * sample - Revision 0: / > Powered by Subversion version 1.6.12 (r955767).* > Well, that's something. Doesn't give me any list of repositories, but it's > something. > > Isn't http://localhost/svn supposed to show me something useful? > > One would think so, yes. I get the same thing, Andy. Going to http://[mysvnserver]/svn I can login at the .htaccess prompt, and get forbidden. I have SVNListParentPath on also inside the <Location /svn> directive. I tried to sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /data/svn but it had no effect on the list. The error it is throwing is [Thu Jul 21 08:09:38 2011] [error] [client my-ip-add-ress] The URI does not contain the name of a repository. [403, #190001]
