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I'm trying to configure my subversion server using apache2, mod_dav_svn and a basically digest authenticaton (for now). I've setup the subdomain svn.example.com to serve the repos and created the virtualhost conf like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin admin@example.com
    ServerName svn.example.com

    <Location />
            DAV svn

            # Automatically map any "/foo" URL to repository /var/svn/repos/foo
            SVNParentPath /var/svn/repos

            # List repositories if viewed from a web browser
            SVNListParentPath on

            # Authentication: Digest
            AuthName "Private Area"
            AuthType Digest
            AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth.htdigest

            # Authoriztion: Authenticated users only
            Require valid-user
    </Location>
</VirtualHost>

This conf file (svn.example.com) resides inside apache2's sites-available directory, as well inside sites-enabled.

The last thing, I created the auth user file using htdigest.

At this step I wanted to test the setup. But each time I open svn.example.com in a browser all I get is a blank page. I don't know what is wrong. I checked the apache access/error log files, but there's nothing there that could help.

Any thoughts ?

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I bet there must be something in the error_log. Make sure that Apache has access permission on the SVN root directory:

# chown -R www-data:www-data /var/svn/repos
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I already chowned the repos directory with that user/group. In error_log there are only notices from when I restarted apache. Nothing else. – misterjinx Oct 1 '11 at 18:01
Test Apache syntax apachectl configtest, set LogLevel to debug and add a ErrorLog directive for your virtual host, reproduce this problem to see if you have something in log file. – quanta Oct 2 '11 at 1:43
configtest says Syntax is OK. I added debug LogLevel and ErrorLog and the only lines in error.log are [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down and [notice] Apache/2.2.16 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.6.12 configured -- resuming normal operations. If it matters, I commented the lines with authentication and authorization but nothing changed :|. I don't know, could be something with apache ? It's a fresh install, maybe I forgot to configure something properly. ` – misterjinx Oct 2 '11 at 5:46
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I figured out what it was. First of all I had an error in my file zone, instead of a CNAME entry for the subdomain, there was an A record.

After that, I enabled the auth_digest module and everything is working fine.

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