Re: [viewvc-users] authz rules not being followed when folder name doesn't match Location name.

Terr Dooher wrote:
> But I think ViewVC is using the repo path component (proj12) in deciding
> on permissions and hence not allowing me to see, or enter it. (Manually
> adding /proj12 to the URL results in a 404).
> 
> Is this a bug, or I have I just highlighted an unsupported svn setup?

Your setup (of ViewVC) doesn't jive with your Subversion setup, and that's
where the problem lies.  I think if you switched to using svn_roots= (which
allows you to explicitly name each root) instead of root_parents= (which
derives root names from the basename of the containing directory), your
configuration will work.

To be clear, instead of doing this:

   root_parents = /var/svn : svn

You should switch to something like this (where you list all 20 repositories
for each vhost, or all repositories if you're only using one vhost in ViewVC):

   svn_roots = proj : /var/svn/proj,
               ...
               svn : /var/svn/proj12,
               ...

Yes, this unfortunately means that every time you add a new repository, you
have to edit viewvc.conf.  But you already have to do this for httpd.conf
(since you aren't using SVNParentPath), so this is just one more small step.

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
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