Subversion behind Nginx

[Cliff Wells]

Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Cliff Wells wrote:
> 
>> According to the FAQ on Subversion, a proxy needs to provide these 
>> additional HTTP methods:
>>
>> PROPFIND, REPORT, MERGE, MKACTIVITY, CHECKOUT
>>
>> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#proxy
>>
>>
>> Apache has a mod_svn that provides these additional methods which is 
>> why most people run Apache when they need to have SVN HTTP access.
>>
>> So I'm sure you see my question coming ;-)
>>
>> How difficult would it be for Nginx to support these additional 
>> methods as well?  There's at least two reference implementations 
>> (Apache and Squid).
> 
> nginx in proxy mode passes all methods as is. So mod_svn behind nginx 
> should
> work. And some users use nginx as frontedn before SVN HTTP server.
> 
> As I know there are problems with the "Destination" header line in the COPY
> and MOVE methods. The header may have a different server name, port or
> the "https" scheme.
> 
> The first problem resolved using Apache directives:
> 
> ServerName        the.same.name.as.frontend.name
> UseCanonicalName  on
> 
> The second problem resolved using nginx rewrite:
> 
>           set  $dest  $http_destination;
>           if ($http_destination ~ "^https://(.+)") {
>              set  $dest   http://$1;
>           }
> 
>           proxy_set_header  Destination   $dest;
>

Ah thank you.  This was my next question =)

Regards,
Cliff