Redmine

Hello all,

Last night I spent a few hours trying to get the apach/mod/dav/svn authentication to work as it is described here:

http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Repositories_access_control_with_apache_mod_dav_svn_and_mod_perl ;

but without success.

Here's what I did:

• downloaded the latest Redmine VM package from the turnkey website (version 11.2 of the VM)
• updated all packages
• created a mysql user called apache_dav_svn and granted this user all priviliges on the railsapp_production database; I tested this by logging in from the command line with this user and everything worked as expected
• created a test account in Redmine and added it to the default svn-helloworld repository

• ran the following command:

sudo apt-get install libapache2-svn libapache-dbi-perl libapache2-mod-perl2 libdbd-mysql-perl libdigest-sha1-perl

• enabled the apache modules using:

sudo a2enmod dav
sudo a2enmod dav_svn
sudo a2enmod perl

• copied Redmine.pm (from /var/www/railsapp/extra/svn/Redmine.pm) to /usr/lib/perl5/Apache/Redmine.pm and to /usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Redmine.pm

• changed the dav_svn.conf file in /etc/apache2/installed-mods/; here are the contents of the file:

@# /svn location for users
PerlLoadModule Apache::Redmine
<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath "/srv/repos/svn"
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Satisfy any

PerlAccessHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::access_handler
    PerlAuthenHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::authen_handler
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Redmine SVN Repository"

#read-only access
    <Limit GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
        Require valid-user
        Allow from 192.168.8.23
    # Allow from another-ip
        Satisfy any
    </Limit>

1. write access
   <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
   Require valid-user
   </LimitExcept>

1. for mysql
   RedmineDSN "DBI:mysql:database=railsapp_production;host=localhost"

RedmineDbUser "apache_svn_dav" 
    RedmineDbPass "<mypassword>
</Location>@

I have 2 problems:

• When I try to access my repository via http, it asks for a password, but never authenticates; whatever user/pass combo I use
• If I use svn:// instead of http(s)://, it never asks for any authentication (makes sense, but I would like to disable this possibility or force authentication as well).

Additional something I tried:

• Changing the owner of the Redmine.pm file to www-data (the user running apache) and chmodding to 777 - no change

If anyone has any suggestions as to what I did wrong, please help me out! :)

Thanks in advance for your effort!