Bakhuis@Bakhuis-Server:~> su
Password:
Bakhuis-Server:/home/Bakhuis # a2enmod dav
Bakhuis-Server:/home/Bakhuis # a2enmod dav_svn
Bakhuis-Server:/home/Bakhuis # mkdir /srv/svn/user_access
Bakhuis-Server:/home/Bakhuis # touch /srv/svn/user_access/svn_passwdfile
Bakhuis-Server:/home/Bakhuis # chown root:www /srv/svn/user_access/svn_passwdfile
Bakhuis-Server:/home/Bakhuis # chmod 640 /srv/svn/user_access/svn_passwdfile
Bakhuis-Server:/home/Bakhuis # htpasswd2 /srv/svn/user_access/svn_passwdfile Pascal
New password:
Re-type new password:
Adding password for user Pascal
Bakhuis-Server:/home/Bakhuis # rcapache2 restart
Syntax OK
Shutting down httpd2 (waiting for all children to terminate) done
Starting httpd2 (prefork) done
Bakhuis-Server:/home/Bakhuis # svnadmin create /srv/svn/kdrepos/BakaCMS
Bakhuis-Server:/home/Bakhuis # chown -R wwwrun:www /srv/svn/kdrepos/BakaCMS/{dav,db,locks}
chown: cannot access `/srv/svn/kdrepos/BakaCMS/dav’: No such file or directory
So I thought… hey it might be the last slash. and tried
Code:
Bakhuis-Server:/home/Bakhuis # chown -R wwwrun:www /srv/svn/kdrepos/BakaCMS{dav,db,locks}
chown: cannot access /srv/svn/kdrepos/BakaCMSdav': No such file or directory chown: cannot access /srv/svn/kdrepos/BakaCMSdb’: No such file or directory
chown: cannot access `/srv/svn/kdrepos/BakaCMSlocks’: No such file or directory
So no luck it seems to want a subdir ‘nav’ in
/srv/svn/kdrepos/BakaCMS/, how do I continue?
As this has gone without a repsonse for a while, I’m open for
suggestions on other ways of getting subversion to work as well… I
mainly want to get it working and as this way was openSUSE specific it
seemed like the safest bet… I’ve screwed it up before many times as
well following other guides.
So if anyone actually got it working, following a guide… please show
me the way.
except that dav doesn’t exist. Is it supposed to? Is there another step
you have to do first to make it exist? I don’t know about DAV and SVN.
PS: I just looked at an existing SVN repo I have and it does have a dav
subdirectory. Presumably the svnadmin create command is supposed to
create it. Not sure why it didn’t for you. You should investigate that.
Maybe you have an older version of subversion?
in newer versions of subversion this dav subdirectory is not created by
svnadmin create but by the first access of the repo by a client. So the
howto you worked from is out of date and you should remove dav from the
list in the braces and just proceed with the client access steps.
ken_yap;1914218 Wrote:
> It seems
>
> http://www.svnforum.org/2017/viewtopic.php?t=6829
>
> in newer versions of subversion this dav subdirectory is not created by
> svnadmin create but by the first access of the repo by a client. So the
> howto you worked from is out of date and you should remove dav from the
> list in the braces and just proceed with the client access steps. Thanks for clearing that up, I’ll attempt to follow the rest with that
change and update the article afterwards if it works.
But make sure that the parent directory is owned by wwwrun so that the
webserver can create the directory on demand when accessed from the
client. Or else mkdir dav and chown it so that it exists.
ken_yap;1914225 Wrote:
> But make sure that the parent directory is owned by wwwrun so that the
> webserver can create the directory on demand when accessed from the
> client. Or else mkdir dav and chown it so that it exists. I’ll have to consider starting a fanclub for you someday as this is the
zillionth time you helped me out!
No success following the guide all over again but ommitting ‘dav’. So
read your post, performed chown wwrun:www on it’s parent directory and
completed the first import a few seconds later
