# SVN and Rails problem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-and-rails-problem/114141>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 8, 2007, 1:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-and-rails-problem/114141 "2007-09-08T13:22:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![jnicholson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@jnicholson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jnicholson)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 1:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-and-rails-problem/114141/1 "2007-09-08T13:22:15Z")

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Hi guys,

I’ve finally managed to get my server up and running with  
mongrel\_cluster and all that jazz. My rails app works fine, but when I  
try to access my svn repos as I was doing before everything was setup  
rail is giving me a 404.

What can I add to my httpd.conf to prevent this? Here’s a snip from my  
httpd.conf relating to the domain:

—HTTPD.CONF---------------------------

\<VirtualHost 75.126.60.178:80\>  
ServerName [fapbox.com](http://fapbox.com)  
ServerAlias [www.fapbox.com](http://www.fapbox.com)  
DocumentRoot /home/fapbox/current/public  
ServerAdmin removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
UseCanonicalName Off  
CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/fapbox.com combined  
CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/fapbox.com-bytes\_log “%{%s}t %I  
.\n%{%s}t %O .”  
\<IfModule !mod\_disable\_suexec.c\>  
SuexecUserGroup fapbox fapbox  
  
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/fapbox/public\_html/cgi-bin/

```
<Location /svn>
    DAV svn
    SVNParentPath /usr/local/svn/repos/private
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Fapbox Subversion Repository"
    AuthUserFile /usr/local/svn/users/passwords
    Require valid-user
</Location>

RewriteEngine On

# Rewrite domain.com to www.domain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^fapbox.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.fapbox.com$1 [R=301,L]

# Check for maintenance file and redirect all requests
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/system/maintenance.html -f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !maintenance.html
RewriteRule ^.*$ /system/maintenance.html [L]

# Rewrite index to check for static
RewriteRule ^/$ /index.html [QSA]

# Rewrite to check for Rails cached page
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]

# Redirect all non-static requests to cluster
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ balancer://mongrel_cluster%{REQUEST_URI}

```

[P,QSA,L]

```
# Deflate
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml

```

application/xml application/xhtml+xml text/javascript text/css  
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html  
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip  
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

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**Author:** ![jnicholson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@jnicholson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jnicholson)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-and-rails-problem/114141/2 "2007-09-08T16:51:13Z")

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Jim N. wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I’ve finally managed to get my server up and running with  
> mongrel\_cluster and all that jazz. My rails app works fine, but when I  
> try to access my svn repos as I was doing before everything was setup  
> rail is giving me a 404.

I usually find it easier to create a separate subdomain for Subversion,  
say [svn.example.com](http://svn.example.com). Then you can have a separate virtualhost for your  
repository and won’t have to fiddle too much with Apache routing.

–  
Cheers,

- Jacob A.

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**Author:** ![jnicholson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@jnicholson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jnicholson)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-and-rails-problem/114141/3 "2007-09-08T17:00:01Z")

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Jacob A. wrote:

> Jim N. wrote:
> 
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > I’ve finally managed to get my server up and running with  
> > mongrel\_cluster and all that jazz. My rails app works fine, but when I  
> > try to access my svn repos as I was doing before everything was setup  
> > rail is giving me a 404.
> 
> I usually find it easier to create a separate subdomain for Subversion,  
> say [svn.example.com](http://svn.example.com). Then you can have a separate virtualhost for your  
> repository and won’t have to fiddle too much with Apache routing.
> 
> –  
> Cheers,
> 
> - Jacob A.

Thanks Jacob,

I don’t suppose you have an example of how I would do this. I’m not very  
good with server type stuff.

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**Author:** ![jnicholson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@jnicholson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jnicholson)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-and-rails-problem/114141/4 "2007-09-08T19:28:35Z")

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Jim N. wrote:

> > repository and won’t have to fiddle too much with Apache routing.
> 
> I don’t suppose you have an example of how I would do this. I’m not  
> very  
> good with server type stuff.

You will need to setup the subdomain in DNS. Then you will need to  
restore your previous virtualhost config (the one where svn was  
working). Keep your current virtualhost (the one where your Rails app is  
working) and add the svn one so you have two separate virtualhosts.

My virtualhost for svn looks like this (except I changed the domain):

\<VirtualHost \*:80\>  
ServerAdmin removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/data/repositories  
ServerName [svn.example.com](http://svn.example.com)  
ErrorLog /var/log/apache/svn-error\_log  
CustomLog /var/log/apache/svn-access\_log common  
\<Directory /usr/local/www/data/\>  
AllowOverride All  
  
  
DAV svn  
SVNParentPath /home/svn/repositories  
Satisfy Any  
AuthType Basic  
AuthName “Subversion repository”  
AuthUserFile /home/svn/svn-users  
AuthzSVNAccessFile /home/svn/svn-access  
Require valid-user

–  
Cheers,

- Jacob A.

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**Author:** ![jnicholson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@jnicholson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jnicholson)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-and-rails-problem/114141/5 "2007-09-08T16:37:36Z")

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By the way my repository is located [www.fapbox.com/svn/fapbox](http://www.fapbox.com/svn/fapbox)

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**Author:** ![jnicholson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@jnicholson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jnicholson)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-and-rails-problem/114141/6 "2007-09-09T17:35:17Z")

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Thanks for the reply Jacob. I’m having nothing but trouble trying to  
setup the subdomain for some reason. Is there a way to make rails ignore  
the svn directory directly through the conf file?

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**Author:** ![jnicholson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@jnicholson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jnicholson)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-and-rails-problem/114141/7 "2007-09-09T18:14:11Z")

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Actually I’ve managed to setup the subdomain but now when I try to  
commit stuff I’m getting a PROPFIND 301 error.

Here’s my conf file:

LoadModule dav\_svn\_module modules/mod\_dav\_svn.so  
LoadModule authz\_svn\_module modules/mod\_authz\_svn.so

NameVirtualHost 75.126.60.178

\<VirtualHost 75.126.60.178:80\>  
ServerName [fapbox.com](http://fapbox.com)  
[…SNIP…]

\<VirtualHost 75.126.60.178:80\>  
ServerName [svn.fapbox.com](http://svn.fapbox.com)  
ServerAlias [www.svn.fapbox.com](http://www.svn.fapbox.com)  
DocumentRoot /usr/local/svn/repos/private  
ServerAdmin removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/svn.fapbox.com combined  
CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/svn.fapbox.com-bytes\_log “%{%s}t  
%I .\n%{%s}t %O .”

```
<Location />
    DAV svn
    SVNParentPath /usr/local/svn/repos/private
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Fapbox Subversion Repository"
    AuthUserFile /usr/local/svn/users/passwords
    Require valid-user
</Location>

```

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**Author:** ![jnicholson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@jnicholson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jnicholson)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-and-rails-problem/114141/8 "2007-09-10T14:54:05Z")

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Jim N. wrote:

> \<VirtualHost 75.126.60.178:80\>  
> CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/svn.fapbox.com-bytes\_log “%{%s}t  
> %I .\n%{%s}t %O .”
> 
> ```
> <Location />
> DAV svn
> SVNParentPath /usr/local/svn/repos/private
> 
> ```

^^ Are you sure you mean SVNParentPath here?

SVNParentPath assumes that repositories are in subdirectories to this  
path. If you only have one repository you shouldn’t use SVNParentPath, I  
don’t recall the right directive, check the docs.

–  
Cheers,

- Jacob A.