VisualSVN Upgrade to 3.0.0 - Authentication - Access Forbidden
I use VisualSVN Server Manager to manage all the repositories in our subversion server. It is a fairly simple tool to create & maintain the subversion repositories. I recently moved our subversion repositories to a different server and also upgraded the VisualSVN software from version 2.5.8 to 3.0.0.
Even though the migration process is fairly simple & straight forward, the repository access permission/authentication mechanism has changed between these versions and that requires a small manual update. If the authentication mechanism is not fixed, subversion client will not connect to the server and it will fail with an error - "Access Forbidden" or "xxxx file not found under <repository>\conf folder".
Here are the steps for a simple migration -
Even though the migration process is fairly simple & straight forward, the repository access permission/authentication mechanism has changed between these versions and that requires a small manual update. If the authentication mechanism is not fixed, subversion client will not connect to the server and it will fail with an error - "Access Forbidden" or "xxxx file not found under <repository>\conf folder".
Here are the steps for a simple migration -
- Copy the subversion folder from old server to the new server.
- Install VisualSVN Server software on the new server and make the copied folder location as the repository location.
- Open the VisualSVN Server Manager
- Right Click on each repository
- Repository -> Properties -> Security
- On the security tab, click Add & add the required users and set their permissions.
- The above step will create the necessary authentication files in the repository sub-folders.
- Start the VisualSVN Server & connect to it using the subversion client.
Labels: Access Control, Access List, Authentication, migration, repositories, Repository, Security, source control, Subversion, subversion client, SVN, Tortoise SVN, upgrade, version upgrade, Visual SVN Server
posted by Shanmuganathan Sivaraj at
6:14 PM
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