SVN post-commit hook on Windows stopped running

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I'm running SVN on Windows and had a post-commit hook that was running the day I set it up. Now it's not running anymore. I'm running SVN through Apache Httpd. As part of my troubleshooting, I did the following:

Successfully checked in a file and viewed it from the TortoiseSVN's repo browser
Verified that the post-commit.bat file was in the hooks directory of my repository
Cut down the post-commit.bat file to be this one line:

echo hello > hello.txt
Checked-in a file and looked for the hello.txt file in the Apache installation folder (E:\Applications\Apache2.2) and its subdirectories, but found nothing
Verified the Apache service was up and running (which it must have been to have successfully checked in)
Eyeballed my services using services.msc to see if there might be some monitoring service I need running that was stopped accidentally; I didn't recognize any
I created a pre-commit hook and verified that it is running as expected (so this is only a problem with the post-commit hook -- not all hooks in general)

What are the next steps I should take to troubleshoot why my post-commit hook is not executing?

what do you mean by Wrote a post-commit.bat file and verified that it IS RUNNING — manojlds
I mean that a made a post-commit hook, and that hook is running as expected. — Mike M. Lin
Have you checked apache logs? They should tell you what's happening. — manojlds
I meant pre-commit hook. That was a typo. My error.log does not show any activity around my commits. I see my connections in the access.log, but nothing indicating a problem. — Mike M. Lin

Edwin Buck Edwin Buck · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-09T22:15:23

It's so simple it's absurd, but did you verify that the user running the script has permissions to write to the working directory? Often web exposed services don't as your script could effectively rewrite itself (or other scripts).

SVN post-commit hook on Windows stopped running

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