Configuring Apache Subversion with Websvn

Question

Platform:

CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
SVN, version 1.4.2 (r22196)
Apache httpd.i386 2.2.3-43.el5.centos.3

I have a file called subversion.conf, /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf:

LoadModule dav_svn_module     modules/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module   modules/mod_authz_svn.so

# Virtual path for websvn
Alias /wsvn /var/www/websvn/
<Directory /var/www/websvn>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

# Subversion configuration
<location /wsvn>
    DAV svn
    SVNListParentPath on
    SVNParentPath /var/www/wsvn
    AuthzSVNAccessFile /etc/svn-acl-conf
    AuthType Basic
    AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-conf
    Require valid-user
</Location>

In my svn-acl-conf I have the following:

[/]
joeblogs = rw

In my svn-auth-conf I have the following, and used # htpasswd -cm svn-auth-conf joeblogs:

joeblogs:$apr1$ellT3...$2spAjOJ2W1kFDieAoJJeg

In my directory /var/www/ I have have this:

4 drwxr-xr-x 4 apache apache 4096 Oct  1 20:56 wsvn

And it wsvn

4 drwxr-xr-x 7 apache apache 4096 Oct  1 20:56 APP
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 apache apache 4096 Oct  1 20:56 DEV

The problem is when I try and import a project using this:

svn import temp http://x.x.x.x/wsvn/DEV/dev-proj -m"Initial import"
svn: Server sent unexpected return value (500 Internal Server Error) in response to OPTIONS request for 'http://x.x.x.x/wsvn/DEV/dev-proj'

And when I try and browse in Firefox http://x.x.x.x/wsvn I get the following

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

However, if I comment out the following I can browse to that site without any problem, and I can see the repositories:

<location /wsvn>
#    DAV svn
#    SVNListParentPath on
#    SVNParentPath /var/www/wsvn
#    AuthzSVNAccessFile /etc/svn-acl-conf
#    AuthType Basic
#    AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-conf
#    Require valid-user
</Location>

How can I fix this problem?

ERROR LOG

[Sat Oct 02 01:58:17 2010] [error] [client x.x.x.x] need AuthName: /wsvn/listing.php, referer: http://x.x.x.x/wsvn/listing.php?repname=DEV
[Sat Oct 02 01:58:28 2010] [error] [client x.x.x.x] need AuthName: /wsvn/DEV/dev-proj
[Sat Oct 02 02:00:59 2010] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Sat Oct 02 02:00:59 2010] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Sat Oct 02 02:00:59 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sat Oct 02 02:00:59 2010] [notice] Digest: done
[Sat Oct 02 02:00:59 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sat Oct 02 02:01:03 2010] [error] [client x.x.x.x] need AuthName: /wsvn/DEV/dev-proj
[Sat Oct 02 02:02:28 2010] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Sat Oct 02 02:02:28 2010] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Sat Oct 02 02:02:28 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sat Oct 02 02:02:28 2010] [notice] Digest: done
[Sat Oct 02 02:02:28 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sat Oct 02 02:02:31 2010] [error] [client x.x.x.x] need AuthName: /wsvn/listing.php, referer: http://x.x.x.x/wsvn/listing.php?repname=DEV
[Sat Oct 02 02:02:34 2010] [error] [client x.x.x.x] need AuthName: /wsvn/listing.php, referer: http://x.x.x.x/wsvn/listing.php?repname=DEV
[Sat Oct 02 02:03:03 2010] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Sat Oct 02 02:03:03 2010] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Sat Oct 02 02:03:03 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sat Oct 02 02:03:03 2010] [notice] Digest: done
[Sat Oct 02 02:03:04 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sat Oct 02 02:03:06 2010] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Error running this command: svn --non-interactive --config-dir /tmp log --xml --verbose -r HEAD:1 'file:////var/www/wsvn/WEB/@HEAD' --limit 2, referer: http://x.x.x.x/wsvn/listing.php?repname=DEV
[Sat Oct 02 02:03:06 2010] [error] [client x.x.x.x] svn: No such revision 1, referer: http://x.x.x.x/wsvn/listing.php?repname=DEV

Answer 1

It is a bug in SVN. You can not access root and see the list of repositories if you have an authz file.

It is true at least if you have SVNRoot in "/" as I have.