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Asked: 2026-05-30T04:50:31+00:00

I have an SVN repository that is configured to use Basic authentication through Apache

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I have an SVN repository that is configured to use Basic authentication through Apache httpd to limit access to specified users. To support a continuous integration server (and other read-only services) running on the same server I would like to allow anonymous read access from localhost.

After going some research (i.e. Googling) I came up with trying the following Apache configuration:

<Location /svn>
   DAV svn
   SVNParentPath /var/svn

   AuthType Basic
   AuthName "SVN"
   AuthBasicProvider external
   AuthExternal pwauth

   #Only allow specified users to login to SVN
   require user UID1
   require user UID2
   require user UID3

   #Allow anonymous reads from localhost
   <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from 127.0.0.1
   </LimitExcept>
</Location>

When I try to do an anonymous checkout from the local server I still get prompted for a password (in this case for the root user).

Any thoughts or suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong or how I should properly configure things to allow this?

My original attempt at configuring anonymous read access is based off of the information on this page.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I was never able to find a solution that would allow anonymous read access from localhost only and require authentication for both read and write from any remote system.

    Ultimately I created a username/password for the application needing to authenticate.

    This wasn’t the ideal solution… but it should work fine.

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