TortoiseSVN – Unable to Connect to Repository at URL Error

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I'm using TortoiseSVN to connect to a newly-created repository on my RHEL server. I did svnadmin create reponame as root to create the repository. I simply want to checkout the repository using TortoiseSVN so that I can add files to it.

I installed mod_dav_svn and can now connect and checkout the repository. On my local machine, I added files to the directory and tried to commit. However, TortoiseSVN now gives

Can't open file '/subversion/langantiques/db/txn-current-lock': Permission
denied

How do I rectify this one?

Best Answer

If you created repo as root (with with umask, BTW) and later try to access repo with W action as local user with file:/// protocol (all mentioned parts in sentence are important) you have ordinary permission problem: user, under which you run svn process, have to have sufficient rights to work with repo. Chown or chmod or chgrp repo dir, as needed (I'm not a shaman to see your FS)

If your repo served by Apache - httpd process must have +r+w rights on repo

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If I understand the question correctly, you don't have any issues when performing svn via http://somehost/svn/repo/proj but when you attempt to use the locally installed svn client from the system, you are getting permission denied from any user other than root.

What are the permissions of the files that you are trying to commit/update/checkout? are they owned by a functional user account that the user doesn't have permissions to?

Try to perform checkout/update/commits from /tmp to see if its a file permissions problem.

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I have almost the same setup and to make this work for all the application developers I used the following permissions

drwxr-xr-x 7 www-data www-data

my www-data user/group = your apache user/group

I also added the applications developers to the group www-data.

By the way, this is in my apache conf file (this keeps things more secure):

  <Location /somesite>
     DAV svn
     SVNParentPath /home/www/svn/somesite
     SVNListParentPath On
     AuthType Basic
     AuthName "Subversion Repository"
     AuthUserFile /home/www/svn/.htpasswd
     <Limit GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
        Require valid-user               
     </Limit>
  </Location>

Test first that you can commit locally on your server and then remotely.

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