Svn – OS X Snow Leopard Server SVN WebDav setup issue

If you are running Ubuntu, it should work. I installed the libapache2-svn a long time ago and it installed mod_authz_svn.so to my system.

Here is my dav_svn.load

root@rhea:~# cat /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.load
# Depends: dav
LoadModule dav_svn_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_svn.so

Want me to attach my mod_authz_svn.so somehow so you can see if that will work for you?
Perhaps you just need to enable mod_dav_svn.so?

If I use your configuration, I get the following error message in my error logs (/var/log/apache2/error_log):

[Mon Jan 24 20:18:54 2011] [error] [client ::1] The lock database could not be opened, preventing access to the various lock properties for the PROPFIND.  [500, #0]
[Mon Jan 24 20:18:54 2011] [error] [client ::1] A lock database was not specified with the DAVLockDB directive. One must be specified to use the locking functionality.  [500, #401]

This causes the Finder to return a "connection failed" message. If you look at the example httpd-dav.conf provided by Apple, you'll see:

DavLockDB "/usr/var/DavLock"

So you need something like that in your own configuration. After adding the appropriate DavLockDB entry to my config file, it worked without any problems. Documentation on mod_dav_fs can be found here.

NB: You may also want to add a require valid-user directive to your directory configuration to prevent unauthorized access to the directory.