404 error when configuring SVN on Amazon EC2

Question

I am trying to set up an SVN server on an existing EC2 instance. My idea is to have the repository on S3, ie, I wish to make the SVN server point to the repository bucket on S3. These are the steps I performed:

1. Add a rule to the EC2 security group to allow TCP access on port 80 from 0.0.0.0/0
2. SSH into the EC2 instance.
3. Install subversion

    yum install subversion 

4. Install Apache 2 (I verified that the httpd package was already installed)
5. Install mod_dav_svn

    yum install mod_dav_svn 

6. Add the following line in the httpd.conf file:

    LoadModule dav_svn_module modules/mod_dav_svn.so ... <Location /svn> DAV svn SVNPath http://gyanify-svn.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ </Location> 

7. Restart the apache web server

     sudo apachectl restart 

However, after doing the above, I notice a couple of things:

1. Running

    sudo apachectl status 

   gives a 404 error

    HTTP Status 404 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- type Status report message description The requested resource is not available. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Tomcat/7.0.32 

2. Running

    sudo apachectl restart 

   gives the following:

    [Sun Dec 09 21:26:02 2012] [warn] module dav_svn_module is already loaded, skipping 

Additional details that may/may not help:

• I already have a web application deployed on the EC2 instance using Elastic Beanstalk and it is working fine.
• I am using the default Amazon Linux AMI

Can someone advise what I'm missing here or what I'm not doing correctly?

Answer 1

This can't be done in this manner. SVNPath is supposed to point to a local file path, not a URL.

You can try to mount your S3 bucket using a loopback mount with S3backer . I'm not sure I'd use something like this in production though. Make sure that you're getting solid backups of your repo.