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I am installed a SVN server (v1.6) on a VPS contracted with CentOS 5, Apache 2.2 with WHM panel.
I installed and configured all necessary modules and am able to create and access repositories via my web browser normally.

The problem: I can not commit or import anything, always return permission errors:

First error:

Can not open file '/var/www/svn/test/db/txn-current-lock': Permission denied

After fix the previous error:

Can't open '/var/www/svn/test/db/tempfile.tmp': Permission denied

And other... (and happends many others)

Can't open file '/var/www/svn/test/db/txn-protorevs/0-1m.rev': Permission denied

I've read and executed permissions on numerous tutorials regarding this errors, all without success. I've defined the owner as apache or nobody and different permissions for folders and files.
I'm using TortoiseSVN to connect to the server.

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  • Apache process list: 
    root@vps [/var/www]# ps aux | egrep '(apache|httpd)'
    root     19904  0.0  4.4 133972 35056 ?        Ss   16:58   0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
    nobody   20401  0.0  3.5 133972 27772 ?        S    17:01   0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
    root     20409  0.0  3.4 133972 27112 ?        S    17:01   0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
    nobody   20410  0.0  3.8 190040 30412 ?        Sl   17:01   0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
    nobody   20412  0.0  3.9 190344 30944 ?        Sl   17:01   0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
    nobody   20414  0.0  4.4 190160 35364 ?        Sl   17:01   0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
    nobody   20416  0.0  4.0 190980 32108 ?        Sl   17:01   0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
    nobody   20418  0.3  5.3 263028 42328 ?        Sl   17:01   0:12 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
    root     32409  0.0  0.1   7212   816 pts/0    R+   17:54   0:00 egrep (apache|httpd)

SVN folder permission var/www/:

drwxrwxr-x 3 apache apache 4096 Dec 11 16:41 svn/

Repository permission var/www/svn/:

drwxrwxr-x 6 apache apache 4096 Dec 11 16:41 test/

Internal folders of repository var/www/svn/test:

drwxrwxr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Dec 11 16:41 conf/
drwxrwxr-x 6 apache apache 4096 Dec 11 16:41 db/
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache apache    2 Dec 11 16:41 format*
drwxrwxr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Dec 11 16:41 hooks/
drwxrwxr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Dec 11 16:41 locks/
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache apache  229 Dec 11 16:41 README.txt*
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if you can't change owner of Apache process, you have to use 777 for SVNParentPath – Lazy Badger Dec 12 '12 at 23:27
@LazyBadger I tryed, but the problem persist. I defined chmod -R 777 /var/www/svn and chown -R apache:apache /var/www/svn – Fred Wuerges Dec 12 '12 at 23:58
Well, svn ls REPO_URL and content of error.log, pls – Lazy Badger Dec 13 '12 at 0:13
@LazyBadger svn ls return empty because repository is empty. The error to import is same after set 777 permissions. – Fred Wuerges Dec 13 '12 at 1:04

closed as too localized by Michael Hampton, Brent Pabst, Ward, chutz, growse Dec 14 '12 at 14:36

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