Redmine, unable to checkout svn repository 401 failed

Question

my problem is that i am unable to checkout repository, because of the authorization failed message, i used my redmine login/box root login and i can't checkout. i'm able to browse the repository from redmine without receiving any 404 errors.
at the users link of the repository in redmine, no user is displayed, edited many time the repository user and still no progress.

i double checked the following dsn at svn.conf from apache2 sites-available is correct
sql login , user and password are correct

server details ubuntu 12.04 apache 2.2.22

Answer 1

The following procedure solved my problem. It allowed the repository to work integrated with Redmine (user mapping) and authenticated for SVN repository. (Assuming you have Subversion's libapache2-svn packages and have restarted apache2 service)

create SVN parent directory

<pre>
mkdir /svn
</pre>

Open /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf with an editor

<pre>
&#60;Location /svn>
 DAV svn
 SVNParentPath /svn
 AuthType basic
 AuthName "SVN repositories"
 AuthUserFile /svn/auth
 Require valid-user
&#60;/Location>
</pre>

create htpasswd file and add a user, for adding just remove -c argument

<pre>
htpasswd -cm auth /svn/auth admin
</pre>

setup permissions

<pre>
chown -R www-data:www-data /svn
chmod -R g+ws /svn
</pre>

restart Apache

<pre>
service apache2 restart
</pre>

some changes also are needed in Redmine

<ul>
<li>Setup crontab for managing repositories with redmine</li>
<li>when you browse the repository from redmine and you get a 404 error then go to project settings-> repositories-> your repository [edit] 
<ul>
<li>Username = admin</li>
<li>Password is admin's password</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

you can browse/checkout/commit/etc from h..p://host/svn or via Redmine for browsing and use other tools like TortoiseSVN for checkout/commit/edit/etc..