AuthzSVNAccessFile and SVNListParentPath - examples in Chapter 6 are misleading

Ben Collins-Sussman sussman at red-bean.com
Tue May 23 11:21:20 CDT 2006


Interesting.  I wonder if this is a bug in the SVNListParentPath
feature itself??

On 5/20/06, Martin Curtayne <mcurtayne at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Firstly thanks for the great svn reference.  However, if the examples for
> configuring Apache in Chapter 6 are followed, it results in an
> authentication error when using the 'SVNListParentPath on' and the
> 'AuthzSVNAccessFile' options together and attempting to view a list of the
> repositories.
>
> To correct the examples in this chapter, the location directive needs to be
> set as follows: <Location /svn/> - note the trailing / after svn (currently
> the examples read <Location /svn>).
>
> Making this change has the side effect of requiring the user to use the URI:
> <server>/svn/.  The URI: <server>/svn will no longer work.
>
> Just to underline I'm not the only one to find this issue, see the thread
> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-01/0050.shtml
>
> Eventually a contributor to the thread also reaches the same conclusion I
> did.
>
> regards
> mc
>
>
>
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