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avdmeers

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Registered: 2011-04-24

Posts: 11

Subversion browser 403 error

I installed Subversion using the Apache server. Everything works fine, meaning I can import, checkout and commit using my account. However, what I am not capable of browsing the repositories using a standard browser. However, all permissions should allow this (in an previous Arch installment, I was capable of doing so, but I don't have the information of compare against).

I use SSL, the data for the virtual host directive:

<Location /svn>
   DAV svn
   SVNParentPath /srv/svn/repositories
   AuthzSVNAccessFile /srv/svn/.svn-policy-file
   AuthName "SVN Repositories"
   AuthType Basic
   AuthUserFile /srv/svn/.svn-auth-file
   Satisfy Any
   Require valid-user
</Location>

The policy file:

[/]
* = r
[test:/]
avdmeers = rw
[cg-i:/]
avdmeers = rw
[cg-ii:/]
avdmeers = rw

Permissions for svn:   root:root 755
Permissions for svn/repositories:   root:root 755
Permissions for all repos:   http:http 755

The actual error thrown after being polled to confirm the security exception and giving up my account details in the browser is a 403 error, meaning the server fails to read. What am I missing?

avdmeers

Member

Registered: 2011-04-24

Posts: 11

Re: Subversion browser 403 error

Apparently a bug present in 1.6 to be fixed in 1.7: weird permissions issue

Browsing specific SVN projects works.