Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:55:46 -0500 From: Glen Johnson <nelgmj@verizon.net> To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apache22 + Subversion 1.6.6 = No go. Message-ID: <c7f57fc89a83496f01e7a49d60da3035@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <4B0AD92C.1050701@FreeBSD.org> References: <0c5bf2a922ecbc1096da03be5670e3e1@verizon.net> <4B0575A0.707@FreeBSD.org> <6b6f6c5e02e38af4ded7a3884301c1ac@verizon.net> <4B06223B.2010900@FreeBSD.org> <08a7defd2c8ad208f116c883a7fbe175@verizon.net> <4B07085C.8010207@FreeBSD.org> <8f95651eafaaf288bc9e9f3dc25a9bb5@verizon.net> <4B0AD92C.1050701@FreeBSD.org>
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On Nov 23, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Glen Johnson wrote: >> >> On Nov 20, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: >> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Glen Johnson wrote: >>>> >>>> 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 > I worked on this a little more after my last e-mail and figured out that I was using the wrong URL. I was trying http://penti4/svn/repos/default. What I really needed was http://penti4/svn/default. Thank you for all your help Mr. Larkin! Good day, Glen
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