svn: E175002: PROPFIND of '/svn': Could not read status line: Operation timed out (http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)

Question

I have a problem continue to burn my head from two days.

I setup a SVN on my centos6.3 hosted on a dedicated server. I'm used to deploy SVN with web_dav but that time it's not gonna work as expected.

Actually the repository work throughout the web-brwoser, but impossible to make it work by command line or any tools, I get

svn co http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/svn
Authentication realm: <http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80> Authorization Realm
Password for 'xxxxxx': 
svn: E175002: PROPFIND of '/svn': Could not read status line: Operation timed out (http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) 

even I succeed to get the Authentication prompt and Apache access_log show

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - Atheryl [16/Feb/2014:06:09:33 -0500] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 200 183 "-" "SVN/1.7.10 neon/0.29.6"

I tried from other machine/os/location in the world ...

My httpd.conf have just the servername modified and here is my subversion.conf

LoadModule dav_svn_module     modules/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module   modules/mod_authz_svn.so

<Location /svn>
    DAV svn
    SVNPath /var/www/svn/repos
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Authorization Realm"
    AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-conf
    Require valid-user
</Location>

I did, as well during installation

chkconfig --level 235 httpd on

I did contact the support of this server for another reason (Two domain name pointing to my IP address, they changed my server addresses so now logs are clear.)

If anyone have any tip for me, thank you.

Edit :

DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

Answer 1

It seems you have ordinary connection timeout and redirect-loop (timeout can be result of loop)

Where you have defined web-root in Apache? Is it (haphazardly) /var/www/ (check DocumentRoot directive in main-host container)? If my assumption is correct, your config is exclusively bad - you have real physical localtion /svn under web-root, logical Location /svn (overlapped physical) and repositories as ordinary trees, accessible by Apache (it's terrible incorrect and absolutely insecure)

Move tree /var/www/svn/repos/ into any other location in host outside web-root, edit SVNPath accordinly. As result you must have /some/path/to/repo (single repo at this path, because SVNPath used) in config and directory /var/www/svn/ must not exist in your FS

chkconfig will not find any errors, because your config is syntactically correct, but contain logical error(s)