[Note: please post in plain text if at all possible!] > -----Original Message----- > From: Anastasio, David M CTR USAF AFMC AFLCMC/HNID > [mailto:david.anastasio....@hanscom.af.mil] > Sent: 06 September 2012 16:26 > To: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Question about Basic Authentication > > Hello, > > System Configuration: > > Windows Server 2003 > Apache Subversion 1.7.6 > TortoiseSVN 1.7.9 > HTTP Server 2.2.22 > > I am trying to configure Subversion with Basic Authentication > but the error log indicates the user cannot be found which > tells me the passwd file is not being seen. > > In this example the top level directory of the Repository is > C:\svnrepos\test1. > > IP has been masked for security purposes. > > Should the passwd file reside elsewhere? Perhaps relative to > the ServerRoot? > > LoadModules: - The "mod_auth_basic.so" load module is > enabled in httpd.conf > > LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so
Just in case... Something that caught me when I started with apache is that the `require valid_user` directive is provided by `mod_authz_user` and I had disabled that as I thought I wasn't using it with basic etc. It took quite a bit of to-ing and fro-ing through the apache docs [1] before I got it right... [1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_authz_user.html ~ mark c > Fragment of httpd.conf <Location> directive (it references > full path to the passwd file...) > > <Location /svn/> > DAV svn > SVNParentPath c:/svnrepos > AuthType Basic > AuthName "Subversion repositories" > AuthUserFile C:/svnrepos/test1/conf/passwd > Require valid-user > </Location> > > Fragment from access log: > > xxx..xx.x.xx - "" [06/Sep/2012:15:38:37 +0100] "OPTIONS > /svn/test1 HTTP/1.1" 401 401 > > xxx..xx.x.xx - "" [06/Sep/2012:15:38:37 +0100] "OPTIONS > /svn/test1 HTTP/1.1" 401 401 > > Fragment from error log: > > Thu Sep 06 15:30:48 2012] [error] [client xxx..xx.x.xx] user > jimmy not found: /svn/test1 > > URL from within the TortoiseSVN GUI (on the local machine): > > http://<local_host_name>/svn/test1 > > David Anastasio > Jacobs Technology
