Apache, Subversion and "configuration error: couldn't check access. No groups file?:"
Submitted by Steve on May 30, 2006 - 9:06pm.
The joys of doing an update to ones server. Fedora Core 5 upgrades Apache from 2.0 to 2.2.
This broke all sorts of things, most quickly fixed. But this one error stumped me for a bit.
Basically when I was doing a subversion commit it would fail with "configuration error: couldn't check access. No groups file?:" in the apache errorlog.
GoogleFu suggested two answers:
1. Override with a "Satisfy Any". This worked, but I am quite sure does all sorts of evil things to my security setup. Change was reverted.
2. Missing modules. This sounded more promising. It appears that I also needed mod_authz_owner.so loaded.
My repository is alive again!
