SmartSVN Repository moved permanently

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  •  14-04-2022
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Question

I recently set up an svn repo with authentication.

Our PC users are using tortoise SVN and are able to checkout, commit, etc.

Our Mac OS users are using SmartSVN and when trying to checkout they get the following error:

Repository moved permanently; please relocate OPTIONS
request failed on'/'

I ran into this issue when setting it up initially with tortoisesvn and the solution was making sure that that svn repo wasn't a child of the www directory. So I placed it in the home directory

The home directory looks like the following:

/public_html
/repos
/www

The vhost conf file looks like:

<IfModule mod_dav_svn.c>
 <Location /repos/>
  DAV svn
  SVNParentPath /data/svn/repos/
  SVNListParentPath On
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "SVN Repository"
  AuthUserFile /data/svn/.htpasswds/.svn.htpasswd
  AuthzSVNAccessFile /data/svn/.htpasswds/.svn.authz
  Require valid-user
 </Location>
</IfModule>

Both PC and Mac users are able to view the repositories with the proper authentication in a browser. The only issue is when trying to checkout when using SmartSVN on MacOS.

There aren't any errors in the log that I can see that relate.

Edit: Clarification All users are checking out the repos with a url format like:

http://svn.myserver.com/repos/REPONAME
Was it helpful?

Solution 2

Originally our svn was using a single repository and we changed it to use a collection of repositories. We were still using the same subdomain "svn.server.com" with the main difference that our collection is now svn.server.com/repos/

SmartSVN stored the old url "svn.server.com" and seemed to ignore the new supplied url during checkout (svn.server.com/repos/TEST)

The solution is simple.

SmartSVN > Preferences > Authentication

Delete the old record and then try to check out again.

OTHER TIPS

Both PC and Mac users are able to view the repositories with the proper authentication in a browser

Browser in your case is not the best testing-tool. CLI-based SVN-client will give more details about problem

In your case Mac-users (I suppose) tried to read repository root, not repository (it's possible in browser only with SVNListParentPath On in config, as you have). Any SVN client on any OS (for current stable 1.7) can not read SVNParentPath (promised to be changed in 1.8) and must to use

svn ls SERVER/repos/REPONAME as minimal root-level for single repository

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