Can t open file svn repo db txn-current-lock Permission denied

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I have set up a Linux Server and installed Apache and SVN and dav svn on it  Now  when I try to upload to https   x x x x x svn repo with Tortoise SVN I get   Can t open file   server svn repo db txn-current-lock   Permission denied   I have Set up my SSL correctly  I can checkout  no problems  even remotely due to Port Forwarding    I m guessing this has to do with the Linux Ownership of the Repository folders  How must I set this  what are the commands

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It s permission problem  It is not  classic  read write permissions of apache user  but selinux one   Apache cannot write to files labeled as httpd sys content t they can be only read by apache   You have 2 possibilities    label svn repository files as httpd sys content rw t   chcon -R -t httpd sys content rw t  path to your svn repo  set selinux boolean httpd unified -- gt  on  setsebool -P httpd unified 1    I prefer 2nd possibility  You can play also with other selinux booleans connected with httpd   getsebool -a   grep httpd

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I also had this problem recently  and it was the SELinux which caused it  I was trying to have the post-commit of subversion to notify Jenkins that the code has change so Jenkins would do a build and deploy to Nexus   I had to do the following to get it to work    1  First I checked if SELinux is enabled       less  selinux enforce   This will output 1  for on  or 0  for off   2  Temporary disable SELinux       echo 0  gt   selinux enforce   Now test see if it works now    3  Enable SELinux       echo 1  gt   selinux enforce   Change the policy for SELinux    4  First view the current configuration        usr sbin getsebool -a   grep httpd   This will give you  httpd can network connect --  off  5  Set this to on and your post-commit will work with SELinux        usr sbin setsebool -P httpd can network connect on   Now it should be working again

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Try to disable SELinux by this command  usr sbin setenforce 0  In my case it solved the problem

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This is a common problem  You re almost certainly running into permissions issues  To solve it  make sure that the apache user has read write access to your entire repository  To do that  chown -R apache apache    chmod -R 664   for everything under your svn repository   Also  see here and here if you re still stuck     Update to answer OP s additional question in comments   The  664  string is an octal  base 8  representation of the permissions  There are three digits here  representing permissions for the owner  group  and everyone else  sometimes called  world    respectively  for that file or directory   Notice that each base 8 digit can be represented with 3 bits  000 for  0  through 111 for  7    Each bit means something    first bit  read permissions second bit  write permissions third bit  execute permissions   For example  764 on a file would mean that    the owner  first digit  has read write execute  7  permission the group  second digit  has read write  6  permission everyone else  third digit  has read  4  permission   Hope that clears things up

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3 Steps you can follow   chmod -R 775  lt repo path gt    --- gt  change permissions of repository  chown -R apache apache  lt repo path gt    --- gt  change owner of svn repository  chcon -R -t httpd sys content t  lt repo path gt    ---- gt  change SELinux security context of the svn repository

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I just had this problem    Having multiple user using the same repo caused the problem  Logout evey other user using the repo    Hope this helps

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for example on debian  sudo gpasswd -a svn-admin www-data sudo chgrp -R www-data svn  sudo chmod -R g rwsx svn

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In addition to the repository permissions  the  tmp directory must also be writeable by all users

[apache] Can't open file 'svn/repo/db/txn-current-lock': Permission denied

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