Subversion Server doesn't work over network [SOLVED]

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-leliel- · Post by **-leliel-** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:08 am

Hi folks,

I tried to set up a subversion server with this howto: http://rockfloat.com/howto/gentoo-subversion.html

Everything seems to work all right, but I can't checkout/import/do anything from another computer ...

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mbp17:~/Sites patrick$ svn import http://linuxbox/sf_ask -m "First Import"
subversion/libsvn_ra_dav/util.c:826: (apr_err=175002)
svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/sf_ask'
subversion/libsvn_ra_dav/util.c:296: (apr_err=175002)
svn: PROPFIND of '/sf_ask': could not connect to server (http://linuxbox)
mbp17:~/Sites patrick$ svn import svn://linuxbox/sf_ask -m "First Import"
subversion/svnserve/serve.c:1962: (apr_err=210005)
svn: No repository found in 'svn://linuxbox/sf_ask'
mbp17:~/Sites patrick$

The repository was created with svnadmin create and I also set the rights as described in the tutorial. Does anybody know what could be wrong here?

I also can't get any repository info with websvn.

Thanks a lot

dentharg · Post by **dentharg** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:35 pm

For working with Subversion via http you need a DAV extension on your webserver (for apache it is mod_dav IIRC).

For starters maybe you should setup a svnserver server available via svn:// protocol?

I think there already is a /etc/init.d/svnserve script but I need to check it.

Edit:
A sh*t. I've just saw that you're also trying svn://. But your error suggest that your configuration for svn:// is not proper, ie: path to repository is either wrong or not set up. Check it.

-leliel- · Post by **-leliel-** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:34 pm

damn. One of the how-to's said I should create further repositories in /var/svn/repos ... but it should go to /var/svn ... seems to work now, thanks for the hint!

dentharg · Post by **dentharg** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:04 am

Mark the topic with [SOLVED] if you have found a solution for your problem

-leliel- · Post by **-leliel-** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:41 am

it's not completely solved yet.

I can easily check my stuff out and locally commit to stuff, but this doesn't work from a remote machine. If I try to connect to svn://myuser@linuxbox neither subclipse nor the svn command line tool ask me for a password and simply say 'authentication failed'.

I worked with two different howtos and I really don't know any solution ...

here are some configs, hope somebody can help:

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linuxbox patrick # cat /etc/conf.d/apache2 
APACHE2_OPTS="$APACHE2_OPTS -D PHP4 -D DEFAULT_VHOST -D SVN -D SVN_AUTHZ -D DAV -D DAV_FS -D SSL -D SSL_DEFAULT_VHOST -D AUTH_PAM"

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linuxbox patrick # cat /etc/apache2/modules.d/47_mod_dav_svn.ssl-conf 
<IfDefine SVN> 
        <IfModule !mod_dav_svn.c> 
                LoadModule dav_svn_module       modules/mod_dav_svn.so 
        </IfModule> 
        <Location /svn/repos> 
                DAV svn 
                SVNPath /var/svn/repos
                AuthType Basic
                AuthName "Subversion repository"
                AuthUserFile /var/svn/conf/svnusers
                Require valid-user
                <IfModule mod_auth_pam.c> 
                        AuthPAM_Enabled on 
                        AuthType Basic 
                        AuthName "Subversion repository" 
                        SSLRequireSSL 
                        Require group svnusers 
                </IfModule>
                # For any operations other than these, require an authenticated user.
                 <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
                        Require valid-user
                 </LimitExcept>
        </Location> 
        <IfDefine SVN_AUTHZ> 
                <IfModule !mod_authz_svn.c> 
                        LoadModule authz_svn_module     modules/mod_authz_svn.so
                </IfModule> 
        </IfDefine> 
</IfDefine>

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linuxbox patrick # cat /etc/conf.d/svnserve 
# The commented variables in this file are the defaults that are used
# in the init-script.  You don't need to uncomment them except to
# customize them to different values.

# Options for svnserve
SVNSERVE_OPTS="--root=/var/svn"

# User and group as which to run svnserve
SVNSERVE_USER="apache"
SVNSERVE_GROUP="apache"

dentharg · Post by **dentharg** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:45 am

Hmm...
did you have a read of this:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn. ... httpd.html?

Looks like you have no settings for repos location in Apache...

-leliel- · Post by **-leliel-** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:57 am

hmm, nope. Thanks. I'll try.

-leliel- · Post by **-leliel-** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:38 am

well, it's a very curious behaviour ... I can checkout stuff from everywhere via svn://linuxbox... I can also view https://linuxbox/svn/repos/ (empty repository) but not https://linuxbox/svn/repos/sf_ask (not found). And I can't commit anything.

dentharg · Post by **dentharg** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:53 am

Hmm.. your links suggests that you're using multiple repository configuration, yes?
sf_ask repository is not available within repos storage since it's empty.

-leliel- · Post by **-leliel-** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:00 pm

well, but it's not empty ...

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linuxbox patrick # svn info svn://localhost/repos
Path: repos
URL: svn://localhost/repos
Repository Root: svn://localhost/repos
Repository UUID: 32059d94-0fb7-4d21-881e-9f884173ba1f
Revision: 0
Node Kind: directory
Last Changed Rev: 0
Last Changed Date: 2007-10-21 13:40:45 +0200 (Sun, 21 Oct 2007)

linuxbox patrick # svn info svn://localhost/repos/sf_ask
Path: sf_ask
URL: svn://localhost/repos/sf_ask
Repository Root: svn://localhost/repos/sf_ask
Repository UUID: 97992eb7-9f5d-4451-be8d-f1ffbfadbe8f
Revision: 1
Node Kind: directory
Last Changed Author: root
Last Changed Rev: 1
Last Changed Date: 2007-10-22 23:19:49 +0200 (Mon, 22 Oct 2007)

I don't understand ...

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svnlook tree /var/svn/repos/
/

I think I can also create a repository in /var/svn/ but it should also work in repos ...

dentharg · Post by **dentharg** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:07 pm

/svn/repos/ is just repo storage, an ordinary directory.

You should svnadmin create repo for each of your projects in /svn/repos/.

/svn/repos IS NOT REPOSITORY in case of multirepository storage.

-leliel- · Post by **-leliel-** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:20 pm

Like this:

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svn create sf_ask /var/svn/repos

?

That's what I did ...

dentharg · Post by **dentharg** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:25 pm

should be:

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svnadmin create /var/svn/repos/sf_ask

-leliel- · Post by **-leliel-** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:37 pm

sorry, my fault.

this is the script I use to create a new repository:

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#!/bin/bash
#
svnadmin create /var/svn/repos/$1
chown -R apache:svnusers /var/svn/repos/
chmod -R g-w /var/svn/repos/$1
chmod -R g+rw /var/svn/repos/$1/db
chmod -R g+rw /var/svn/repos/$1/locks

svnadmin command is correct.

svnlook tree works fine for /var/svn/repos/sf_ask, but I get 'Not found' on the https site.

dentharg · Post by **dentharg** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:47 pm

You have error in your config

For the <Location /svn/repos>
change SVNPath to SVNParentPath /var/svn/repos.

This is because you use MULTIPLE repository location and not SINGLE repository location.

-leliel- · Post by **-leliel-** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:55 pm

works! Thank you.

Going to test out authentication stuff later.

dentharg · Post by **dentharg** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:03 pm

Glad to be of service. Now mark the topic with [SOLVED]