I've got svnserver running with parent path set and I want to support Path-based Authorization.
I'm starting there server as follows: C:\Program Files (x86)\WANdisco\Subversion>svnserve -d -r C:/SVN/repositories I'm having no trouble reading repositories from remote clients with the svn:// protocol but I can't commit. The documentation talks about setting the "authz-db" value in the "svnserve.conf" file to define access rights. However, I'm confused and having some trouble with getting this to work in a parent path environment. If I populate the authz and passwd files in the conf directory of a specific repository and I start the SVNSERVE for that specific repository: (i.e. C:\Program Files (x86)\WANdisco\Subversion>svnserve -d -r C:/SVN/repositories/Test) things seem to work fine. However, if I try to set authz-db to a file in any directory other than the conf directory of the repo. Being served it appears to fail to read it. It works fine if I set authz-db to just the file name in the conf directory like: authz-db = authz it also works fine if I give it a complete path the same file like: authz-db = C:/SVN/repositories/Test/conf/authz However, if I copy the same file to a different directory (i.e. c:/SVN/repositories/authz) then try to reference it either with a relative path or a literal path: authz-db =../../ authz or authz-db = C:/SVN/repositories/authz Finally when I run svnserve with a parent path. no matter what I do in any of the svnserve.conf and authz-db and password-db files anywhere. it just seems to ignore any and all access rights settings.. It just allows read-only access right to anonymous users. never asks for any cridentials, and doesn't allow write rights to anything. I've managed access rights for multiple repositories on other servers where Apache integration was being used to provide HTTP access to the repos but I've never done this before using svnserve.. What am I missing? How do you manage the path-based Authentication for multiple repositories on a single server using svnserve? Thanks in advance, Tom
