Apache22 + Subversion 1.6.6 = No go.
Greg Larkin
glarkin at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 23 18:49:21 UTC 2009
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Glen Johnson wrote:
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> On Nov 20, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Greg Larkin wrote:
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>> Glen Johnson wrote:
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>>> On Nov 19, 2009, at 11:59 PM, Greg Larkin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Glen Johnson wrote:
>>>>> On Nov 19, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Greg Larkin wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Glen Johnson wrote:
>>>>>>> FreeBSD-questions,
>>>>>>> I am attempting to use FreeBSD as my Subversion server. I have
>>>>>>> Subversion working, and I have Apache working. However when I
>>>>>>> try to
>>>>>>> use http:/my_server/svn/my_project I get:
>>>>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>>>>>>> <D:error xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:m="http://apache.org/dav/xmlns"
>>>>>>> xmlns:C="svn:">
>>>>>>> <C:error/>
>>>>>>> <m:human-readable errcode="2">
>>>>>>> Could not open the requested SVN filesystem
>>>>>>> </m:human-readable>
>>>>>>> </D:error>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1 I tried chmod -R 777 /home/svn/repos.
>>>>>>> 2 I tried recompiling apache, db, and subversion.
>>>>>>> 3 I looked at /var/log/http-error.log (partial list below)
>>>>>>> [Thu Nov 19 09:35:52 2009] [notice] Graceful restart requested,
>>>>>>> doing
>>>>>>> restart
>>>>>>> [Thu Nov 19 09:35:53 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for
>>>>>>> digest
>>>>>>> authentication ...
>>>>>>> [Thu Nov 19 09:35:53 2009] [notice] Digest: done
>>>>>>> [Thu Nov 19 09:35:54 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.13 (FreeBSD)
>>>>>>> mod_ssl/2.2.13 OpenSSL/0.9.8e DAV/2 SVN/1.6.6 configured -- resuming
>>>>>>> normal operations
>>>>>>> [Thu Nov 19 09:36:10 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.12]
>>>>>>> (20014)Internal
>>>>>>> error: Can't open file '/usr/home/svn/repos/default/format': No such
>>>>>>> file or directory
>>>>>>> [Thu Nov 19 09:36:10 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.12] Could not
>>>>>>> fetch
>>>>>>> resource information. [500, #0]
>>>>>>> [Thu Nov 19 09:36:10 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.12] Could not
>>>>>>> open
>>>>>>> the requested SVN filesystem [500, #2]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What am I missing?
>>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>>> Glen
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Glen,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please post the relevant bits from your httpd.conf where you set
>>>>>> up the
>>>>>> SVNPath, etc. It looks like maybe the SVNPath directive is
>>>>>> pointing to
>>>>>> the wrong place.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your reply. I currently have this info in
>>>>> /usr/local/etc/apache22/Includes/svn.conf. Apache22 loads all the
>>>>> conf
>>>>> files in this directory when httpd.conf is loaded.
>>>>> <Location /svn>
>>>>> DAV svn
>>>>> SVNParentPath /usr/home/svn/repos
>>>>> SVNListParentPath on
>>>>> SVNPathAuthz off
>>>>> SVNIndexXSLT "/data-dist/svnindex.xsl"
>>>>>
>>>>> # anonymous first
>>>>> Satisfy Any
>>>>> Require valid-user
>>>>>
>>>>> # authenticating them valid ones
>>>>> AuthType Basic
>>>>> AuthName "Subversion Repositories"
>>>>> AuthUserFile /usr/home/svn/access/users
>>>>> </Location>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Glen,
>>>
>>>> At first glance, that looks OK to me. The next tests are:
>>>
>>>> - - Does /usr/home/svn/repos/default exist? (I know, dumb question!)
>>> No, not so dumb. It is good not to make assumptions that I may
>>> overlook. This however is not one. This is what I did to verify I do
>>> have a project.
>>> 1. svn co file:///usr/home/svn/repos def # Then for fun I added
>>> hello.txt in def/trunk. More about this below.
>>> 2. svn co svn://usr/home/svn/repos def # Still works fine.
>>> 3. svn co file:///usr/home/svn/repos def # SVN: Could not open the
>>> requested SVN filesystem (Error message from svn)
>>>
>>>> - - If it does, are permissions set such that the httpd process user
>>>> can
>>>> read the directory? You said "chmod 777" on the repository parent
>>>> directory didn't work.
>>> I tried:
>>> chmod -R 777 /usr/home/svn/repos
>>> chmod -R www:www /usr/home/svn/repos
>>>
>>> By the way here are the settings for user www and group www.
>>>
>>> grep www /etc/passwd
>>> www:*:80:80:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
>>>
>>> grep www /etc/group
>>> www:*:80:glen,root
>>>
>>>
>>>> - - Please post the output of "ls -laR /usr/home/svn/repos"
>>> First I noticed that there are some files that are owned by glen due to
>>> me adding repos/trunk/hello.txt.
>>> Ok you asked for this:
>>> total 24
>>> drwxrwxrwx 10 www www 512 Nov 20 08:48 ./
>>> drwxrwxrwx 5 root www 512 Nov 20 08:46 ../
>>> drwxrwxrwx 6 www www 512 Nov 20 08:48 .svn/
>>> -rwxrwxrwx 1 www www 229 Nov 20 08:46 README.txt*
>>> drwxrwxrwx 3 www www 512 Nov 20 08:48 branches/
>>> drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 512 Nov 20 08:46 conf/
>>> drwxrwxrwx 6 www www 512 Nov 20 09:01 db/
>>> -rwxrwxrwx 1 www www 2 Nov 20 08:46 format*
>>> drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 512 Nov 20 08:46 hooks/
>>> drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 512 Nov 20 08:46 locks/
>>> drwxrwxrwx 3 www www 512 Nov 20 08:48 tags/
>>> drwxrwxrwx 3 www www 512 Nov 20 08:48 trunk/
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Hi Glen,
>>
>> Ok, I see what's going on now. First, you have an SVNParentPath
>> directive in your httpd.conf file. The directory on that line specifies
>> a place where multiple, separate Subversion repositories will appear, so
>> you could have a setup like this:
>>
>> /usr/home/svn/repos
>> /internal-repos
>> /client-projects-repos
>> /oss-contrib-repos
>> ...
>> ...
>>
>> In this case, each of those repository subdirectories would be created
>> like so:
>>
>> svnadmin create /usr/home/svn/repos/internal-repos
>> svnadmin create /usr/home/svn/repos/client-projects-repos
>> svnadmin create /usr/home/svn/repos/oss-contrib-repos
>>
>> So far, so good.
>>
>> What I notice in your directory listings is that you have a Subversion
>> repository anchored at /usr/home/svn/repos, not in a subdirectory
>> therein. This is going to cause problems with SVNParentPath, because it
>> will treat all subdirectories under there (e.g. conf/, db/, hooks/,
>> etc.) as Subversion repositories. If you only plan to use that single
>> repository, your httpd.conf should read:
>>
>> SVNPath /usr/home/svn/repos
>>
>> instead of:
>>
>> SVNParentPath /usr/home/svn/repos
>>
>>
> You are absolutely right! I have attempted to follow a howto
> http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/misc/subversion.php to make all
> this happen. I miss read it and mixed up the multiple repositories
> instructions with the single repository directions. Good catch.
>
>> Next, I notice that /usr/home/svn/repos also contains a Subversion
>> working copy, indicated by the directories .svn/, trunk/, tags/ and
>> branches/. I recommend that you delete those and re-checkout your
>> repository into a new working directory somewhere else.
> What a mess I have made! I am using
> http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/misc/subversion.php as a guide
> and miss read it, I deleted /usr/home/svn/repos and wrote a script which
> follows the directions from the site. I ran it and the repository looks
> clean and nothing is checked out in the midst of it.
>>
>> The reason you saw the message "error: Can't open file
>> '/usr/home/svn/repos/default/format': No such file or directory" was
> I continue to get the exact same error as I started with. Here is the
> full error msg from httpd-error.log:
> [Mon Nov 23 12:59:56 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.100] (20014)Error
> string not specified yet: Can't open file
> '/usr/home/svn/repos/repos/format': No such file or directory
> [Mon Nov 23 12:59:56 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.100] Could not
> fetch resource information. [500, #0]
> [Mon Nov 23 12:59:56 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.100] Could not open
> the requested SVN filesystem [500, #2]
> [Mon Nov 23 12:59:56 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.100] Could not open
> the requested SVN filesystem [500, #2]
>
> I am not sure what it refers to by "Error string not specified yet:"
> The odd thing is it can't find it but it knows that format exists. It
> really looks like it can't find format, but I can see format when I do
> ls -Rla /usr/home/svn/repos in /usr/home/svn/repos/default/format.
>
> ls -Rla /usr/home/svn/repos
> total 6
> drwxrwxrwx 3 www www 512 Nov 23 11:29 ./
> drwxrwxrwx 4 www www 512 Nov 23 11:29 ../
> drwxrwxrwx 6 www www 512 Nov 23 11:29 default/
>
> /usr/home/svn/repos/default:
> total 16
> drwxrwxrwx 6 www www 512 Nov 23 11:29 ./
> drwxrwxrwx 3 www www 512 Nov 23 11:29 ../
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 www www 229 Nov 23 11:29 README.txt*
> drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 512 Nov 23 11:29 conf/
> drwxrwxrwx 6 www www 512 Nov 23 11:29 db/
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 www www 2 Nov 23 11:29 format*
> drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 512 Nov 23 11:29 hooks/
> drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 512 Nov 23 11:29 locks/
Hi Glen,
Please start over with the instructions from the bsdguides.org site, and
make sure you enter each command exactly as it specifies. Your
directory structure above indicates that you've created your repository
in the wrong place.
Best of luck,
Greg
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