Re: [viewvc-users] 500 server error when accessing some areas of the repo

ViewVC (and Subversion itself, for that matter) heavily optimizes for the
case when the user has global read access to the repository.  The addition
of even a single rule which denies read access to a part of the repository
flips ViewVC into a mode where it now has to check every path it considers
displaying for access rights, and sometimes the costs of those checks are
great.  Generally, I find that the bottleneck in these situations is not so
much the sheer number of items in a directory, but whether those items were
last modified in revisions in which a vast number of paths were changed.

You can try increasing your server timeout (using the Timeout httpd.conf
directive), but I'm not sure that that really improves anything.  Who wants
to sit for 10 minutes waiting for a directory listing to appear?

You might also investigate the dir_pagesize and log_pagesize options, which
cause ViewVC to split up long directory and log revision displays into
multiple pages.


On 09/28/2011 09:29 AM, Millsap, James wrote:
> Similar in composition to the rest of the repo. More dirs, with
> associated projects.  If I give myself [/] read access, I can browse
> through it.  Even though I have rw access to many dirs. under /trunk/raw,
> I cannot browse through it without global read access.
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: C. Michael Pilato
> [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 8:19 AM 
> To: Millsap, James Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re:
> [viewvc-users] 500 server error when accessing some areas of the repo
> 
> On 09/27/2011 12:25 PM, Millsap, James wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I guess first I should explain the implementation a bit.   I have
>> viewvc setup with an svn repository.  Using a scriptalias in apache,
>> and svnauthz. Authentication and permissions work fine, except the
>> /trunk/raw dir. Unless I have read access for the entire repo that dir
>> will timeout and give a 500 error.
> 
> So ... what's in the /trunk/raw directory?

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