[svlug] Unified Password Protection for Multiple Services

[Chris Miller]

On 3/30/07, Benjamin Floering <floering at ieee.org> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I think what the DreamHost website is trying to say that you can get to your
> subversion repository through their DAV-enabled apache.  (I just set this up
> a few days ago on a local server).  Just put your svn repository in a place
> where the webserver can get to it and make your location in the svn command
> line start with http://path/to/repos and it should use the apache
> authentication.  I don't think that there is a way to use the svn+ssh access
> method with the apache htpasswd file which is probably what you were trying
> to do?

Yeah, I don't have access to the httpd.conf file (which is for
everyone on the server I'm on!  Yikes I'd be too scared to edit that
thing if I could!).  So does this mean that by modifying the .htaccess
file in the root folder of the web directory (fsdev.net's root folder,
or /home/fsdev/fsdev.net) would give me the ability to specify the
advanced configuration for the DAV-run Subversion server?  I don't
know, personally.  I've got almost no experience in Apache
configuration, and any possible test machine is currently down
(downloading Linux right now, though it's going slower than I'd like)
I've determined that it's not using svnserve daemon, 'cause all the
configuration files for that are untouched (they don't have my
username and password hash in it, so how could I log in and use the
repo without?)

Digest: so if I modify/create a .htaccess file in the root web
directory I could override the settings that I would normally need to
specify in the httpd.conf file (which I don't have access to modify,
though I can read...  no, I'm not going to share 'cause DH probably
wouldn't appreciate that.)

Thanks for your help!

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