1430: Cannot store local certificate for HTTPS SVN when SVN running as NETWORK SERVICE on WIndows
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| Jan. 4, 2010 |
What version are you running? 1.1 alpha What's the URL of the page containing the problem? admin/db/scmtools/repository/add/ What steps will reproduce the problem? When running a secure SVN server using a system account like LocalSystem or NETWORK SERVICE, there is no home directory to store the local certificate. You get: Unable to create directory ~/.subversion, which is needed for the Subversion configuration. Create this directory and set the web server's user as the the owner. Now creating a local admin acct should work but here at NASA/JSC the systems are pretty locked down and we don't have a lot of control when it comes to accounts and they are very security paranoid. What is needed is some way to configure where this is stored (and there may be I just don't know about it) What operating system are you using? What browser? Windows XP, Firefox Please provide any additional information below.
The issue is that we don't have much control over these directories. We call into libsvn, which writes in ~/.subversion. So we're basically limited to what svn can do as a service. As far as what that is, I don't know. What you should be able to do, however, is modify your Apache configuration to set HOME to be some other directory. You should be able to do this with a SetEnv directive in the Apache configuration for Review Board. Just specify a directory where the .subversion directory can be stored and restart the web server.
Thanks for the tip, I will try it.
The HOME environment variable suggestion did work so I would suggest just modifying the installation instructions for us unfortunates who are forced to use windows.