Dawn of the Geeks

I’ve been having issues with Apache 2.0 failing to respond and throwing random errors with no log to let me know what the problem was so I decided to go ahead and upgrade to Apache 2.2.  Everything worked great except for Subversion.  And actually it wasn’t subversion’s fault.

Apache2.2 has broken up the various authentication modules into new or renamed modules.  Once you run around the internet a few times you find out what those modules are.  Then you get this handy dandy “forbidden” error.

In Apache2.0 you could create a user file with plain text passwords.  Not so anymore apparently.  You have to use htpasswd to generate the encrypted passwords.

So, after updating my password with an encrypted version I can now log into SVN and make changes.

We’ll see if Apache 2.2 runs any better on Windows than 2.0 did.