Making an HTTPS SVN command-line request with exec() in PHP

Question

I've got a command I've created that makes an info call to an SVN repository stored on hosted SVN service. Here's an example:

exec('svn info https://myrepo.svn.beanstalkapp.com/project/name/folder 2>&1', $output, $returnStatus);
if ($returnStatus)
{
    print_r($output);
}

The response I get is:

Array
(
    [0] => Authentication realm:  SVN
    [1] => Password for 'apache': Authentication realm:  SVN
    [2] => Username: svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/project/name/folder'
    [3] => svn: PROPFIND of '/project/name/folder': authorization failed (https://myrepo.svn.beanstalkapp.com)
)

I'm running the script on a box that has Plesk on it. It runs final locally so I suspect it's a configuration issue (which I can't seem to find any answers for online).

I don't know how to make the apache user be able to access the authentication realm - I believes that's the issue at hand.

It seems to use basic auth over https. So it might be sufficient to use svn --password ... --username ... for running the request. — mario
– mario, Commented Aug 10, 2011 at 15:55
I still throws that error. The exact command I'm using is svn info --username myuser --password pass myrepo.svn.beanstalkapp.com/project/name/folder 2>&1 - gives the same error. :-( — David D.
– David D., Commented Aug 12, 2011 at 0:04
Can you also add --no-auth-cache --non-interactive options for testing? That might be relevant in your case. Otherwise try to set $HOME and $USER to the account you successfully executed svn info with. Or as last resort configure sudo to perform any interaction under that account - instead of the apache user (might run in a sandbox/jail/selinux/etc?). — mario
– mario, Commented Aug 14, 2011 at 4:36

manojlds · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-10 15:54:39Z

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You need to provide the login credentials - --username and --password ( or make sure that the credentials are stored in ~/.subversion for the user running the app)

And why don't you use some client library like phpsvnclient - http://code.google.com/p/phpsvnclient/

answered Aug 10, 2011 at 15:54

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David D. Over a year ago

I would use the phpsvnclient, but it isn't very friendly or doesn't seem well supported. I was actually passing in the username and password via the URL ie. username:password@http://myrepourl.beanstalkapp.com - it still throw that error...I think it's a configuration error or something...maybe the Apache user doesn't have permission to access that "realm"?

manojlds Over a year ago

David D. - Did you try it as svn info --username <username> --password <password> https://myrepo.svn.beanstalkapp.com/project/name/folder

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