213: Mantis Subversion plugin fails

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(304) Gareth (reporter) 2011-08-11 06:26 edited on: 2011-08-11 06:52	I've managed to trace it to this: APPLICATION ERROR #0 An error occurred during this action. You may wish to report this error to your local administrator. Please use the "Back" button in your web browser to return to the previous page. There you can correct whatever problems were identified in this error or select another action. You can also click an option from the menu bar to go directly to a new section. Full path: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\XXXXXXXX.com\plugins\SourceSVN\SourceSVN.php Line: 254 Variable Value Type svn start /B /D "c:\program files\visualsvn server\bin" svn.exe string Filename Line Function Args C:\inetpub\wwwroot\XXXXXXXX.com\plugins\SourceSVN\SourceSVN.php 254 - - trigger_error ( <string>'0', <integer>256 ) C:\inetpub\wwwroot\XXXXXXXX.com\plugins\SourceSVN\SourceSVN.php 210 SourceSVNPlugin -> check_svn - This occurs after clicking Import Latest Data. I've ensured that the user account has permissions to read /execute from that dir. The START command with the parameters listed above all works fine. svn help returns the correct information too. Any ideas?

(305) Gareth (reporter) 2011-08-14 07:15	I have configured the system to use the Windows START method to execute SVN. If I run the above command manually in a DOS prompt on my Windows 2008 Server it works fine. I assume that trying to do this from a webpage on a server is a security risk and hence why it is failing. Any ideas how to resolve this?

(306) John Reese (administrator) 2011-09-01 07:16	Sorry for the late reply. Your PHP configuration may disable the option to execute shell commands. This would be configured in your php.ini, and must be enabled for the SVN command to execute properly. Also, if your SVN server is using HTTPS, especially with a self-signed or expired certificate, then it may be failing on that as it runs with the web server's account credentials rather than a normal user. Other potential issues are discussed in my post at http://noswap.com/blog/source-integration-triage/ [^] If none of the above helps, then I'm not sure how to proceed. Let me know if you can figure out the cause.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2011-08-11 05:02	Gareth	New Issue
2011-08-11 06:26	Gareth	Note Added: 304
2011-08-11 06:28	Gareth	Note Edited: 304	View Revisions
2011-08-11 06:52	Gareth	Note Edited: 304	View Revisions
2011-08-14 07:15	Gareth	Note Added: 305
2011-09-01 07:16	John Reese	Note Added: 306
2011-09-01 07:16	John Reese	Assigned To	=> John Reese
2011-09-01 07:16	John Reese	Status	new => feedback

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