Apache DAV at `/` with normal hosting at `/foo` - how?

Question

Should I not be able to have a configuration where I serve SVN repos with SVNParentPath at <Location /> and then override DAV and host normal files using another location <Location /foo>? I wish to host my XSLT files on the same subdomain and still host repos at root. Of course, if I was to have a repo called foo, that would not be accessible, and that's ok.

<VirtualHost *:80> ... #Host XSLT files here <Location /foo> DAV Off </Location> #Host my repos relative to root, such as /my_repo/ <Location /> DAV svn SVNParentPath "myrepos" SVNListParentPath on SVNIndexXSLT "/foo/my.xsl" ... </Location> </VirtualHost> 

But DAV SVN still looks for a repo:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <D:error xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:m="http://apache.org/dav/xmlns" xmlns:C="svn:"> <C:error/> <m:human-readable errcode="720003"> Could not open the requested SVN filesystem </m:human-readable> </D:error> 

Edit: I read up on mod rewrite a bit and so far as I understand it the target path of a rewrite rule can only be local unless you use redirect [R]. This for example works, it creates a redirect (HTTP 302):

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/foo/(.*)$ http://someotherhost/foo/$1 [R] 

However, it still doesn't work with SVNIndexXSLT. Probably because it doesn't follow redirects.

Answer 1

"Note, that once you have DAV enabled for some location, it cannot be disabled for sublocations." (emphasis theirs)

You can try mod_rewriting your way out of this one. If you had a

RewriteRule ^/foo/(.*)$ /some/local/directory/$1 [L] 

Theoretically that might evade DAV, since without the PT flag it shouldn't hand the request off to any other module. Worth a shot, at least.

If it doesn't work, be sure to reply to this so someone else trying this will see that it can't be done ;)

Answer 2

Simply host svn at svn.example.com, and keep / for normal http.

Answer 3

Did you ever work out an answer to this? I happen to be trying the exact same configuration right now and I'm running into the same problem as you.

For what it's worth there is half a solution for you - provided the ability to automatically list repositories (with SVNListParentPath On) isn't critical to you.

You could use the SVNPath directive instead - thus you would have something like:

<Location /> SVNIndexXSLT "/repos-web/view/repos.xsl" # Other common options, such as Auth options can go here </Location> <Location /repository1> SVNPath /var/lib/svn/repositories/repo1 DAV svn </Location> <Location /repository2> SVNPath /var/lib/svn/repositories/repo2 DAV svn </Location> <Location /repository3> SVNPath /var/lib/svn/repositories/repo3 DAV svn </Location> 

Obviously, if you're running a setup where you create new repositories regularly (repository per project approach) then this won't be very appealing to you. But it'll do for a small, fixed, number of repositories.

You could then drop a hard coded index.htm in the apache document root if you wanted something user friendly to appear at http://svn.yourdomain.com/

I've tested this approach and it works. Shame about losing the auto-generated list of repositories though (and having to map each repository in the httpd.conf)