title: SVN Error 403 Forbidden
body: <p>I can't figure this out. I try to import a new project into a svn repository from Netbeans and get 403 Forbidden. I just setup svn on my serverbox today. I can get to it through a browser just fine, though its empty as I haven't imported my project yet.</p>
  
  <p>Apache's path for html files is /var/www
  I setup the svn repo in /var/svn</p>
  
  <p>This is the structure of /var/svn</p>
  
  <pre><code>[root@localhost svn]# ls -lR /var/svn
  /var/svn:
  total 4
  drwxrwxrwx 7 apache apache 4096 2010-03-26 10:18 repo
  
  /var/svn/repo:
  total 36
  drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 4096 2010-03-26 09:47 conf
  drwxrwxrwx 3 apache apache 4096 2010-03-26 10:18 dav
  drwxrwsrwx 6 apache apache 4096 2010-03-26 11:19 db
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache    2 2010-03-26 09:47 format
  drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 4096 2010-03-26 09:47 hooks
  drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 4096 2010-03-26 09:47 locks
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache  229 2010-03-26 09:47 README.txt
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache   15 2010-03-26 09:47 svnauth
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache   43 2010-03-26 09:48 svnpass
  
  /var/svn/repo/conf:
  total 12
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 1080 2010-03-26 09:47 authz
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache  309 2010-03-26 09:47 passwd
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 2279 2010-03-26 09:47 svnserve.conf
  
  /var/svn/repo/dav:
  total 4
  drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 4096 2010-03-26 11:19 activities.d
  
  /var/svn/repo/dav/activities.d:
  total 0
  
  /var/svn/repo/db:
  total 48
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache    2 2010-03-26 09:47 current
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache   22 2010-03-26 09:47 format
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 1920 2010-03-26 09:47 fsfs.conf
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache    5 2010-03-26 09:47 fs-type
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache    2 2010-03-26 09:47 min-unpacked-rev
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 4096 2010-03-26 09:47 rep-cache.db
  drwxrwsrwx 3 apache apache 4096 2010-03-26 09:47 revprops
  drwxrwsrwx 3 apache apache 4096 2010-03-26 09:47 revs
  drwxrwsrwx 2 apache apache 4096 2010-03-26 11:19 transactions
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache    2 2010-03-26 11:19 txn-current
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache    0 2010-03-26 09:47 txn-current-lock
  drwxrwsrwx 2 apache apache 4096 2010-03-26 11:19 txn-protorevs
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache   37 2010-03-26 09:47 uuid
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache    0 2010-03-26 09:47 write-lock
  
  /var/svn/repo/db/revprops:
  total 4
  drwxrwsrwx 2 apache apache 4096 2010-03-26 09:47 0
  
  /var/svn/repo/db/revprops/0:
  total 4
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 50 2010-03-26 09:47 0
  
  /var/svn/repo/db/revs:
  total 4
  drwxrwsrwx 2 apache apache 4096 2010-03-26 09:47 0
  
  /var/svn/repo/db/revs/0:
  total 4
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 115 2010-03-26 09:47 0
  
  /var/svn/repo/db/transactions:
  total 0
  
  /var/svn/repo/db/txn-protorevs:
  total 0
  
  /var/svn/repo/hooks:
  total 36
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 1955 2010-03-26 09:47 post-commit.tmpl
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 1638 2010-03-26 09:47 post-lock.tmpl
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 2267 2010-03-26 09:47 post-revprop-change.tmpl
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 1567 2010-03-26 09:47 post-unlock.tmpl
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 3404 2010-03-26 09:47 pre-commit.tmpl
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 2410 2010-03-26 09:47 pre-lock.tmpl
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 2764 2010-03-26 09:47 pre-revprop-change.tmpl
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 2100 2010-03-26 09:47 pre-unlock.tmpl
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 2758 2010-03-26 09:47 start-commit.tmpl
  
  /var/svn/repo/locks:
  total 8
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 139 2010-03-26 09:47 db.lock
  -rwxrwxrwx 1 apache apache 139 2010-03-26 09:47 db-logs.lock
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've got httpd.conf loading svn.conf which contains:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;Location /svn&gt;
  DAV on
  DAV svn
  #SVNParentPath /var/svn
  SVNPath /var/svn/repo
  Authtype Basic
  AuthName "Subversion"
  AuthUserFile /var/svn/repo/svnpass
  Require valid-user
  AuthzSVNAccessFile /var/svn/repo/svnauth
  &lt;/Location&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Full error message is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClientException: RA layer request failed
  Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden) in response to CHECKOUT request for '/svn/!svn/bln/0'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>/var/svn/repo/svnauth:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[root@localhost /]# cat /var/svn/repo/svnauth
  [/]
  user = rw
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Sorry for the incredibly long post, but I thought more info would be better than less. I've been fidgeting with this problem for a long time now.</p>