> -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Canfield [mailto:andy.canfi...@pimco.mobi] > Sent: 21 July 2011 13:19 > To: nka...@gmail.com > Cc: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: Subversion: existing users > > > > On 07/21/2011 05:55 PM, Andy Levy wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 06:12, Andy Canfield > <andy.canfi...@pimco.mobi> <mailto:andy.canfi...@pimco.mobi> wrote: > > ADDENDUM ... > > I used root to create the /data/svn directory. > Then, anticpiating problems, > I did a chmod to make it writable to all. > > > Giving global write permission will lead to problems as well. > Different problems, but problems nonetheless. > > > Later I ran svnadmin create /data/svn/sample > and it created an entire > repository directory tree under /data/svn. I > don't remember but I probably > ran it as root. > > I just now noticed that /data/svn/sample and > all the sub-directories and > files therein are owned by root and, usually, > writable only by root. This is > probably going to cause problems for Apache / > mod_dav_svn which, of course, > runs as the 'apache user' ("www-data") instead of root. > > Where did I go wrong? The manual talks about > commands but does not seem to > talk about what user is executing the command. > Do I have to run svnadmin as > www-data? Is there a way to create a repository > using my browser? > > > Your repository directory (the one you created with > svnadmin create) > should be owned by www-data (or whatever account your > server process > executes under). It doesn't matter whether you run > svnadmin create as > that user, or run it as another user and then change ownership. > > > OK, restart again. The new commands to create the > RepositoryParent directory are: > mkdir /data/svn > sudo chown www-data.www-data svn
I don't use *nix much but shouldn't that be `chown -R ...`? > This results in > drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 2011-07-21 19:01 /data/svn > Here is the command I used to create a repository: > sudo -u www-data svnadmin create /data/svn/sample3 > Now we have > drwxr-xr-x 6 www-data www-data 4096 2011-07-21 19:01 > /data/svn/sample3 > -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 229 2011-07-21 19:01 > /data/svn/sample3/README.txt > etc. > > When I point my browser to http://localhost/svn/sample3 I > still get this short page: > sample3 - Revision 0: / > Powered by Subversion version 1.6.12 (r955767). > so I still suspect that the browser interface is incapable of > performing any action, including creating a repository, and > is also incapable of giving me a list of repositories. It WILL give you a list of reporsitories _under_a_parent_root_ IF you configure it correctly. Of course this tends to be easier (and less secure?) under windoze... As has been mentioned in other posts, you need to give mod_dav_svn TWO directives: SVNParentPath D:/svn/ SVNListParentPath On What are you expecting the browser interface to give you? It provides a fairly simple, read-only interface to the repositories it is configured to serve. There are tools (ViewVC etc) that provide more functionality but general operation is NOT through the browser but a subversion client that happens to use https (etc) as the communication patheway. (I notice Andy Levy has addressed this point better than I) ~ mark c
