On Mar 22, 2011, at 14:58, Walter Cazzola wrote: > I'm administrating a SVN server for my lab with several > repositories/projects accessed via SSL+DAV. The server runs on an old > mandriva (2009) with subversion 1.5.2 and apache 2.2.9 with mod_dav, > mod_ssl and mod_dav_svn installed. Repositories are separate directory > associate to the project. > > A couple of days ago doing some cleaning on my server I've executed a > «chmod 700 -R *» on the wrong directory (to be precise on /home/svn) with > the result to render inaccessible the access to my repository from > remote, as in the following case: > >svn checkout https://url/svn/thales/trunk > svn: access to 'https://url/svn/thales/trunk' forbidden > > I can't do update or commit as well. Before that catastrophic error > everything was working well. I can't access neither from the command line > nor from firefox. > > I've tried to change back the correct access rights but with no luck and > also a «chmod 777 -R *» on the same directory didn't help. Also > restarting apache doesn't help. > > What am I doing wrong? Attached to this message you find the current > situation of one of my repositories with what I consider correct access > rights.
The listings shown in your attachment show things that have not been chmod'ed 777. Not sure about Mandriva, but on Mac OS X at least, the required syntax is "chmod -R 777 thing"; "chmod 777 -R thing" would show the error message "chmod: -R: No such file or directory".
