Could not open the requested SVN filesystem

[szabgab]

[szabgab]

BTW
Which version of Apache and Subversion are you using ?

How did you install them ?
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Gabor Szabo
http://www.szabgab.com/subversion.html

[wuz73]

centOS4 distribution has svn 1.1.1 and apache2 integrated. I didn't install anything separately.

If I remove the svn-related lines, then "svn up http://localhost/svn" gives:

svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn'
svn: PROPFIND of '/svn': 405 Method Not Allowed (http://localhost)

[szabgab]

[szabgab]

Actually, have you read this in the FAQ?

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#reposperms
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Gabor Szabo
http://www.szabgab.com/subversion.html

[wuz73]

Yes, I've read the FAQ on permission. If I turn off SElinux, then it works, but if I turn it on, then it doesn't work, even though I used chcon and made sure that the security context is set properly by using "ls -Z /u/svn/repos".

[szabgab]

[nvasudevan]

All,

I have been getting the following error. The permissions are fine. I am running subversion 1.2.1 on Redhat Ent Linux 4, httpd2.0.52. Its only the web_dav access which doesn work. If i run "svn" on the command line, i can checkout , list etc.. Has this been fixed? I saw quite a few issues regarding this. Thanks for the help

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[Wed Aug 24 14:35:26 2005] [error] [client 20.61.30.27] (20014)Error string not specified yet: Can't open file '/export/subversion2/format': Permission denied
[Wed Aug 24 14:35:26 2005] [error] [client 20.61.30.27] Could not fetch resource information. [500, #0]
[Wed Aug 24 14:35:26 2005] [error] [client 20.61.30.27] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #13]
[Wed Aug 24 14:35:26 2005] [error] [client 20.61.30.27] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #13]

[dang]

if you are using centos or rhel and you are getting permission issues, try putting your repository in /var/www (like /var/www/svn).

That worked for me. Has to do with stock apache being chrooted

[toddyp]

Hello all,

I've got the exact same problem as the original poster. I read and followed the book:

[andyl]

You created a repository in /usr/local/svn

SVNParentPath /usr/local/svn means "go to this directory and look for subdirectories which contain repositories."

You want SVNPath /usr/local/svn because you only have one directory and it's actually in that directory.

[toddyp]

GOT IT!
Thanks heaps mate. The whole directory structures was confusing at the beginning.

[markie]

Hi there.. First post so forgive any stupid things I ask. I am running into the same issue, but I do not have SELinux enabled, and I even added full read write permissions to the format file, but I still get the same error:

[Fri Sep 28 14:58:00 2007] [error] [client 172.16.16.172] (20014)Internal error: Can't open file '/var/svn/repositories/ENVWORLD/format': Permission denied
[Fri Sep 28 14:58:00 2007] [error] [client 172.16.16.172] Could not fetch resource information. [500, #0]
[Fri Sep 28 14:58:00 2007] [error] [client 172.16.16.172] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #13]
[Fri Sep 28 14:58:00 2007] [error] [client 172.16.16.172] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #13]

Any ideas?

[jobano]

I just experienced the same problem... full permissions, apache owner and same error: Can't open file '[...]/format': Permission denied

The trick for me was to move my SVNparentFolder into /var/www/ which is apparently much more reachable for apache.

On my red hat server, /var/www have all apache subdirectories inside (html, cgi-bin, error...) and should be the root directory from where apache can access. I just suppose that last because I wasn't able to find the httpd.conf line relative to it.

Try that !

[SpaceBaz]

I was having the same problem.
I solved min by replacing the
SVNPath with SVNParentPath in the httpd.conf

Hope that helps someone.