I could resolve the issue by adding www-data as a group owner of all the directories files in the repository. Thanks Erik.
Jeremy, yes, I meant chmod. I typed it 'chown' instead by mistake. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Jeremy Mordkoff <j...@zeevee.com> wrote: > > > did you mean > chmod -R 770 myrepository > ? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Disc Magnet [mailto:discmag...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tue 4/13/2010 5:27 PM > To: Erik Andersson > Cc: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: Unable to checkout files: Can't open file: Permission denied > > I did that. I ran these two commands. > > chgrp -R www-data myrepository > chown -R 770 myrepository > > Now, I get this error: > > $ svn commit -m "Updating" > svn: Commit failed (details follow): > svn: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem > > Please help. > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Erik Andersson <kir...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The user running apache needs write access to your repository. >> Cheers / Erik >> >> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Disc Magnet <discmag...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> This is my configuration. >>> >>> <Location /myrepository> >>> DAV svn >>> SVNParentPath /home/magnet/myrepository/ >>> </Location> >>> >>> The checkout command runs fine: >>> >>> svn co http://localhost/myrepository/hachumachu >>> >>> However, the commit command results in this error: >>> >>> mag...@faku:~/hachumachu$ svn commit -m "Additional line" >>> svn: Commit failed (details follow): >>> svn: Can't open file >>> '/home/magnet/myrepository/hachumachu/db/txn-current-lock': Permission >>> denied >>> >>> This appears in my Apache error log: >>> >>> [Wed Apr 14 01:04:58 2010] [error] [client 127.0.1.1] Could not create >>> activity >>> /myrepository/hachumachu/!svn/act/a3cb143e-3098-499b-b7d1-5d5b7e982881. >>> [500, #0] >>> [Wed Apr 14 01:04:58 2010] [error] [client 127.0.1.1] could not begin >>> a transaction [500, #13] >>> [Wed Apr 14 01:04:58 2010] [error] [client 127.0.1.1] Can't open file >>> '/home/magnet/myrepository/hachumachu/db/txn-current-lock': Permission >>> denied [500, #13] >>> >>> In case you want to see the permissions on the folders. >>> >>> mag...@faku:~/myrepository$ ls -l >>> total 12 >>> drwxr-xr-x 4 magnet magnet 4096 2010-04-11 18:13 ondalabondala >>> drwxr-xr-x 6 magnet magnet 4096 2010-04-11 18:12 hachumachu >>> drwxr-xr-x 6 magnet magnet 4096 2010-04-11 19:36 haggupaggu >>> >>> Please help. >> >> > >
