Debian – SVN Returns 403 Forbidden

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I followed these steps on my fresh VM (Debian 6)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60736/how-to-setup-a-subversion-svn-server-on-gnu-linux-ubuntu

i just realized where NameVirtualHostwas and configured it to NameVirtualHost *:443
but it did not help.

my complete svnserver config:

#<VirtualHost *:80>
<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem
    SSLProtocol all
    SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM

    DocumentRoot /var/www
    <Directory />
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride None
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
    </Directory>

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
    <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
            AllowOverride None
            Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn

    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

When i try to reach the site outsite the VM via browser i get a 403 Forbidden.

my dav_svn.conf:

<Location /svn>
# Uncomment this to enable the repository
DAV svn

SVNParentPath /var/svn/svn-repos

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion Repository"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd

  # To enable authorization via mod_authz_svn
  #AuthzSVNAccessFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.authz

  # The following three lines allow anonymous read, but make
  # committers authenticate themselves.  It requires the 'authz_user'
  # module (enable it with 'a2enmod').
  <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
    Require valid-user
  </LimitExcept>

    #Added
    SVNListParentPath On

</Location>

should allow external users to access the svn (as stated in the tutorial).

So why do i get the 403 error?

the apache error log:

[Fri Aug 10 17:51:11 2012] [error] [client my.main.pc.ip] Could not fetch resource information.  [403, #0]
[Fri Aug 10 17:51:11 2012] [error] [client my.main.pc.ip] (2)No such file or directory: The URI does not contain the name of a repository.  [403, #190001]

i added SVNListParentPath On to my Location Block and get the following output in my browser:

<D:error><C:error/><m:human-readable errcode="2">
Can't open directory '/var/svn/svn-repos': No such file or directory
</m:human-readable></D:error>

Update:

Using SVNPath and instead using SVNParentPath solved the problem. But i wanted to use more then one repository.

any help is appreciated!

Best Answer

Sounds like you setup a SVNParentPath in the apache Location but did not provide a repository name in the client. E.g.:

<Location /svn>
  SVNParentPath /my/repos
  # ...
</Location>

accessed with client URL: http://server/svn

The /svn URL is not a repository but a parent path, you would need to svnadmin create /my/repos/repo1 and then access http://server/svn/repo1

If you turn on the list parent path directive within the Location block you can list the sub-repositories:

<Location /svn>
  SVNParentPath /my/repos
  SVNListParentPath On
  # ...
</Location>
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