"groups section not found" error in Apache logs with Crowd Apache Connector
Symptoms
Attempting to login to a Crowd-protected SVN repository results in this:
[Tue Jan 08 09:26:26 2013] [crit] [client 10.60.1.200] groups section not found, referer: http://10.60.1.233/svn/
[Tue Jan 08 09:26:26 2013] [error] [client 10.60.1.200] Access denied: 'admin' GET TestRepository:/, referer: http://10.60.1.233/svn/
Cause
The [groups] section in the AuthzSVNCrowdAccessFile is empty, or not even there. Example:
Groups section is empty
[groups]
[/]
* = rOR
Groups section is not even there
[/]
* = r
Workaround
Add a dummy group into the [groups] section, example:
[groups]
jira-administrators=
[/]
* = rRestart Apache
Last modified on Mar 30, 2016
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