CentOs+SVN: Setup SVN for vhosts

Question

I have a Centos 6 server with multiple vhosts setup as shown below:

/var/www/vhosts/website1/httpdocs/
/var/www/vhosts/website2/httpdocs/
/var/www/vhosts/website3/httpdocs/

they can be accessed through

www.site1.com
www.site2.com
www.site3.com

I installed svn through yum install ..

I updated my subversion.conf according to the site I want to control. I wanted to control a folder called images inside httpdocs:

<Location /test>
  DAV svn
  SVNParentPath /var/www/vhosts/site1/httpdocs/
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "Subversion Repositories"
  AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-users
  Require valid-user
</Location>

I created a password file named svn-auth-users

When I enter in svn tortoise the url: http://www.site1.com/test it gives me an error: Could not open the requested svn filesystem.

For information I did not used the svnadmin create images. Since this images folder already exists and is not empty.

Any help will be appreciated since I am really stucked.

Update: I changed the owner of repository and parent folder to apache:apache.. still same error

Thank you.

Duplicate: SVN could not open the requested svn filesystem, Ubuntu SVN could not open the requested filesystem. — paulsm4
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I changed the subversion.conf... I Had again the filesystem error — Anas

tanius tanius · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-21T14:22:52

You said:

"I did not used the svnadmin create images. Since this images folder already exists and is not empty."

An existing non-empty directory cannot be just "reused" as a SVN repository. Instead, do something along these lines to create a new repository on your server from the content of an existing directory:

svnadmin create /var/www/vhosts/site1/httpdocs/images-repo/;
cd /var/www/vhosts/site1/httpdocs/images-repo/;
mkdir branches tags trunk;
cd trunk/;
cp -R /var/www/vhosts/site1/httpdocs/images/* .;
svn import -m "Initial import" http://www.site1.com/images-repo/;

(Note that it's not good practice to store your repository data inside the document root, security-wise.)

CentOs+SVN: Setup SVN for vhosts

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