So there are several similar questions on serverfault … but the solution is still eluding me.
I am running subversion on Ubuntu 9.04 .. through apache2.2.x ….
I get
Commit failed (details follow):
Can't make directory '/home/kirb/svn/dav/activities.d': Permission denied
when I attempt to commit.
It is definitely a permissions issue… but how to fix it is still eluding me.
My repository is in /home/kirb/svn.
SVN Commit Error says to chgrp .. but I don't seem to be able to. All the apache DAV stuff seems to be working though. I can access my repository just fine through a browser.
Apologies if i am missing something simple here.
Thanks in advance,
Kirb
additional edit: I am not able to sudo chgrp on the directory at all
sudo chgrp -R www-data /home/kirb/svn; chmod -R g+rwx /home/kirb/svn
[sudo] password for kirb:
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/kirb/svn': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/kirb/svn/format': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/kirb/svn/conf': Operation not permitted
chmod: cannot read directory `/home/kirb/svn/conf': Permission denied
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/kirb/svn/locks': Operation not permitted
chmod: cannot read directory `/home/kirb/svn/locks': Permission denied
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/kirb/svn/db': Operation not permitted
chmod: cannot read directory `/home/kirb/svn/db': Permission denied
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/kirb/svn/README.txt': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/kirb/svn/hooks': Operation not permitted
chmod: cannot read directory `/home/kirb/svn/hooks': Permission denied
Best Answer
You need to change the svn files to be in the
www-datagroup, and make them all group-writable. For example, if the repository is/var/svn, thenshould do it. (Although, come to think of it, you've probably already figured this out...)