Sub directories in svn repo as main trac browsable source

[puggy@…]

When using a subdirectory in a subversion repository as the browseable source of a trac it all works nicely.

Say the repo is called myrepo, the directory in that is called mydir.

From trac.ini:

repository_dir = /var/svn/myrepo/mydir
authz_file = /var/svn/conf/svnaccess.conf
authz_module_name = myrepo

From svnaccess.conf:

[myrepo:/]
douglas = rw

[myrepo:/mydir]
douglas = r

When logged in as douglas in Trac, I can view the sub-dir of the repository perfectly, however, if another user, say…Bob were to log in, he would get the following error if he selected browse source:

Oops…

Trac detected an internal error: 
(None, 220001)

Python traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/web/modpython_frontend.py", line 206, in handler
    dispatch_request(mpr.path_info, mpr, env)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 139, in dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 107, in dispatch
    resp = chosen_handler.process_request(req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/versioncontrol/web_ui/browser.py", line 78, in process_request
    repos = self.env.get_repository(req.authname)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/env.py", line 162, in get_repository
    repos = SubversionRepository(repos_dir, authz, self.log)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/versioncontrol/svn_fs.py", line 215, in __init__
    self.fs_ptr, self.pool, 0, self.rev):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/versioncontrol/svn_fs.py", line 44, in _get_history
    start, end, 1, pool())
SubversionException: (None, 220001)

I would have expected the user to get an error similar to as if the trac's subversion was set to the root of a subversion directory (Appropriately modified of course), which is:

Permission Denied

 Insufficient permissions to access /

[bladehawke@…]

This seems to be related:
If the browsable root is a subdir of the repository root, attempting to download zips of the trees fails silently on most browsers (leaving just a blank page) and no message in any logs (apache or trac). I say most browsers because Safari generates an error page indicating NSURLErrorDomain: -1005. Cursory research seems to indicate that this is a timeout but the page appears within 2 seconds.

[agraham]

Turns out I was mistaken above. The fix in r4017 (i.e. #4000) fixed the silent failure I was seeing before.

[Christian Boos]

Ok, but the original issue should still be investigated, I think.

[Christian Boos]

Possibly a duplicate of #2477?

[Christian Boos]

Was likely a duplicate of #2477. Please reopen if it still doesn't work with latest 0.10-stable.