Crowd Integration of Apache/SVN: Client connect fails due to server error "Couldn't create directory: : [...]"

[Michael173]

Hello out there,

we plan to evaluate the Atlassian Tool-Suite together with Subversion as replacement of an existing SCM-system. A main requirement is a central user and access management which I currently try to set up using Crowd.

I set up the crowd integration following the instructions at:
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD020/Installing+the+Crowd+Apache+Connector+on+Windows

When I try to connect to the Subversion repository using a Tortoise Client, I get an error message after entering the login credentials, saying "Server sent unexpected return value (500 internal Server Error) [...]".

In the Apache error log on the server is stated the following:

[error] [client 10.3.53.125] Couldn't create directory: : No such file or directory at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Cache/FileBackend.pm line 222.\n

It looks like a variable is not initialized (see the two ":" behind each other), according to the sourcecode of FileBackend.pm it is "$directory".

So far so good, but why is it empty and which directory should be created? I didn't find any mistake in my configuration but I don't think it's a bug either since this connector probably is in use alreday at other sites.

So I'd appreciate any hints how to solve this!

My setup:

• Server for Vrowd, Apache and Subversion: Windowd 7 64-bit SP1
• Apache 2.2 32-Bit
• Subversion 1.7-rc3
• Strawberry Perl 5.10.1 32-Bit
• Crowd 2.3.3
• Crowd-Apache Connector 1.4 (2.0 not existing for Windows)

All Installations have been performed using Admin-rights!

Further down you'll find the Apache http.conf and the Authz-File.

Thanks for your help!

Kind regards,

Robert173

-------- httpd.conf --------------

ServerRoot "D:/Apache2.2/"

Listen 9880

LoadModule actions_module modules/mod_actions.so
LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
LoadModule asis_module modules/mod_asis.so
LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so
LoadModule authn_default_module modules/mod_authn_default.so
LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so
LoadModule authz_default_module modules/mod_authz_default.so
LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so
LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so
LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so
LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
LoadModule dav_svn_module modules/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module modules/mod_authz_svn.so
LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so
LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so
LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so
LoadModule isapi_module modules/mod_isapi.so
LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so
LoadModule negotiation_module modules/mod_negotiation.so
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_ajp_module modules/mod_proxy_ajp.so
LoadModule proxy_balancer_module modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so
LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
LoadModule proxy_scgi_module modules/mod_proxy_scgi.so
LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so

LoadFile "C:/strawberry/perl/bin/perl510.dll"
LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so

<IfModule !mpm_netware_module>
<IfModule !mpm_winnt_module>
User daemon
Group daemon

</IfModule>
</IfModule>

ServerAdmin admin

DocumentRoot "D:/Apache2.2/htdocs"

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>

<Directory "D:/Apache2.2/htdocs">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>

<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</FilesMatch>

ErrorLog "logs/error.log"

LogLevel warn

<IfModule log_config_module>
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
<IfModule logio_module>
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %I %O" combinedio
</IfModule>
CustomLog "logs/access.log" common
</IfModule>

<IfModule alias_module>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "D:/Apache2.2/cgi-bin/"
</IfModule>

<IfModule cgid_module>
</IfModule>

<Directory "D:/Apache2.2/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

DefaultType text/plain

<IfModule mime_module>
TypesConfig conf/mime.types
AddType application/x-compress .Z
AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
</IfModule>

Include conf/extra/httpd-default.conf

<IfModule ssl_module>
SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
</IfModule>

<Location /TCM_Projects_3>
DAV svn
SVNPath "D:/repos/TCM_Projects_3"
SVNMasterURI http://abts5063:9880/TCM_Projects_3<br< a=""> />
AuthName "UBK-SCM Crowd Access Control System"
AuthType Basic
PerlAuthenHandler Apache::CrowdAuth
PerlSetVar CrowdAppName ubkscm-svn-cache-abtz05bx
PerlSetVar CrowdAppPassword crowd4scm@svn
PerlSetVar CrowdSOAPURL http://abtz05bx:8095/crowd/services/SecurityServer<br< a=""> />
PerlSetVar CrowdCacheEnabled on
PerlSetVar CrowdCacheLocation "D:/temp/CrowdCache"
PerlSetVar CrowdCacheExpiry 300

PerlAuthzHandler Apache::CrowdAuthz
PerlSetVar CrowdAuthzSVNAccessFile "D:\Apache2.2\conf\authzPROJECTS_3.conf"

Require valid-user
</Location>

-------- authzPROJECTS_3.conf --------------

[groups]
svn-tcm_projects-int-read =
svn-tcm_projects-int-write =
svn-tcm_projects-ext-read =
svn-tcm_projects-ext-write =

[/]
* =
@svn-tcm_projects-int-read = r
@svn-tcm_projects-int-write = rw

[huang yi · Accepted solution]

install Cache-Cache 1.06 to fix the problem

http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JS/JSWARTZ/Cache-Cache-1.06.tar.gz

[Deleted user]

I tried different directory names but got the same error with all of them. Also, tried not defining the CrowdCacheLocation so that default location would be used - again got the same error. CrowdAuth.pm seems to read the location parameter correctly (added a log message) so perhaps there is something wrong in FileCache or how the location is passed to it.

In the end I decided to disable using the cache - for my development purposes the apache-crowd integration seems to work adequately w/o cache.

[Dan]

I also had to disable the cache to make it work.

However, it seems that the folder creation worked at least once, since I have the following folder under C: with some cache data inside:

C:\tmp\CrowdAuth

I would also be interested in having it work with the cache.

[Niklas Thulin]

Anyone else with similar issues and possible solutions?

[Jake Hertenstein]

Did you solve this problem? I have the same issue...