Comments on: Setting up Subversion Version control in Ubuntu

By: Walleye

Walleye — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:24:17 +0000

sry, it is:

SVNListParentPath on

By: Walleye

Walleye — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:22:14 +0000

Ups.. following is correct:

SVNListParentPath on

By: Walleye

Walleye — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:21:09 +0000

Try to add this line in your dav_svn.conf:

SVNParentPath on

This worked fine for me

By: Pavlos

Pavlos — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:07:29 +0000

Thanks for your reply.I created /home/pavlos/Documents/programming/code/svn as mine svn folder with the permissions below :
$ sudo ls -lah /home/pavlos/Documents/programming/code/svn
[sudo] password for pavlos:
total 32K
drwxrwx— 6 www-data www-data 4.0K 2009-08-17 22:01 .
drwxrwxrwx 11 pavlos pavlos 4.0K 2009-08-23 22:37 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2009-08-17 22:01 conf
drwxr-sr-x 6 root root 4.0K 2009-08-17 22:06 db
-r–r–r– 1 root root 2 2009-08-17 22:01 format
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2009-08-17 22:01 hooks
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2009-08-17 22:01 locks
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 229 2009-08-17 22:01 README.txt

The strange thing is that with SVNPath is working ok but with SVNParentPath no.

By: Damien

Damien — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:33:43 +0000

Did you set the correct permission for the svn folder:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/lib/svn
sudo chmod 770 -R /var/lib/svn

By: Pavlos

Pavlos — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:03:18 +0000

Hi i just want to setup subversion for the first time.I followed your howto but when i go to http://localhost/svn i get:
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /svn on this server.
Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.5.4 Server at localhost Port 80
Can i do something to fix it?

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:02:47 +0000

Thanks for informing. I have make the changes.

By: Scott McHugh

Scott McHugh — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:34:35 +0000

Thanks for the article! I noticed one quick change due to renaming of htpasswd2 in apache-utils- when configuring the password, the line should be updated from:

sudo htpasswd2 -cm /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd yourusername

to:
sudo htpasswd -cm /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd yourusername

Best,
-Scott