svn: Not authorized to open root of edit operation

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1. rcampbell says

   This dose not seem to work if you are using Apache with mysql auth. Are there any other suggestions?

   In $path_to_repos/repo/conf/svnserve.conf all the lines are commented out because I’m using apache to access the repo.

   The subversion.conf for apace to read
   httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf:

   DAV svn
   SVNParentPath /var/svn/repos
   SSLRequireSSL
   AuthType Basic
   AuthName “MySQL group authenticated zone”
   AuthMYSQLEnable on
   AuthMySQLUser authuser
   AuthMySQLPassword **********
   AuthMySQLDB auth
   AuthMySQLUserTable users
   AuthMySQLNameField user_name
   AuthMySQLPasswordField user_passwd
   AuthMySQLGroupTable groups
   AuthMySQLGroupField user_group

   require group svn

   All the files are visible to both Apache and svn

   April 10, 2009, 8:01 pm
2. jtanium says

   The svnserve.conf file is only used by the ‘svnserve’ binary that’s part of Subversion. If you’re using Apache then the svnserve.conf is completely ignored, so naturally, what I posted is not going to work.

   There’s an Apache directive (I think it’s part of the dav_svn module) called AuthzSVNAccessFile. I would think that’s what you want to look. It’s discussed in Chapter 6 of the SVN Book.

   The file referenced by the AuthzSVNAccessFile directive specifies access control to your repository (or repositories), in a manner similar to what svnserve.conf. I can’t really be more specific because so far I haven’t had the need to define access control for my repositories.

   April 11, 2009, 10:04 pm