SVNPath is ignored in Location in Apache configuration

Question

There are many SVN repositories all hosted under the same directory. I would like to expose one of them (extra) to people with different credentials.

Why does the following apache configuration does not work for http://example.net/svn/extra but works for all the other SVN repos like http://example.net/svn/proj1.

The error I get when I attempt a checkout of http://example.net/svn/extra is:

[error] [client x.x.x.x] (20014)Internal error: Can't open file '/home/trac/svn/svn/format': No such file or directory [error] [client x.x.x.x] Could not fetch resource information. [500, #0] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #2] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #2] 

Please note that subversion tries to access /home/trac/svn/svn/format. Where does the svn/svn path come from?

This is the configuration:

 <Location /svn/extra> DAV svn SVNPath /home/trac/svn/extra AuthType Digest AuthName "DevsExtra" AuthUserFile /home/trac/devs-extra.digest Require valid-user </Location> <Location /svn> DAV svn SVNParentPath /home/trac/svn/ AuthType Digest AuthName "Devs" AuthUserFile /home/trac/devs.digest Require valid-user </Location> 

Answer 1

Rather than using multiple Apache locations to handle authentication, I'd suggest taking a look at mod_authz_svn for Apache since it's designed for access control on a per-path basis. This way you can do something like the following to give a subset of developers access to that folder:

[groups] devs-extra = bob, bill, jim, sally [svn:/extra] @devs-extra = rw 

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.serverconfig.pathbasedauthz.html