On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Aaron Friesen <afrie...@spirae.com> wrote: > All, > > I have been tasked with setting up a mirror of several repositories with > write-through back to the master.
What is your engineering time worth? Wandisco publishes a very nice multi-master setup that does precisely this, at http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/multisiteplus. It can be a real advantage to have a responsible commercial vendor to keep your tools up-to-date for you, rather than to do so manually and be encouraged to integrate local confusing tuning that is unsupportable in the long term. Been there, done that, got paid a lot of consulting money for cleaning up after it. > We have path based authorization on the master. > > The svn book simply states to: > > ... configure each of your "slave" servers in the exact same way, but > add the special SVNMasterURI directive to the <Location> block. > > That works, but seems to require synchronization of the authz information on > all servers. > > What methods have people used to keep them synchronized? > > Here is the relavent <Location> configuration: > > ============== > <Location /sync/> > DAV svn > SVNParentPath "E:/csvn/data/repositories" > SVNReposName "CollabNet Subversion Repository" > > <IfModule deflate_module> > SetOutputFilter DEFLATE > </IfModule> > > <RequireAll> > Require user sync > </RequireAll> > AuthzSVNAccessFile "C:\csvn\data/conf/svn_access_file" > SVNPathAuthz short_circuit > AuthzForceUsernameCase Lower > </Location> > > # Work around authz and SVNListParentPath issue > RedirectMatch ^(/svn)$ $1/ > <Location /svn/> > DAV svn > SVNParentPath "E:/csvn/data/repositories" > SVNReposName "CollabNet Subversion Repository" > > <IfModule deflate_module> > SetOutputFilter DEFLATE > </IfModule> > AuthzSVNAccessFile "C:\csvn\data/conf/svn_access_file" > SVNPathAuthz short_circuit > SVNListParentPath On > AuthzForceUsernameCase Lower > SVNMasterURI http://192.168.15.18:8080/svn > </Location> > ============== > > By restricting access on <Location /sync/> to just the user "sync", and the > SVNMasterURI in <Location /svn/>, is there any major reason not to simply > remove all path based restrictions on the mirror and let the master perform > that function so that the authz on the mirror doesn't have to change? > > Thanks, > > Aaron