I installed tortoise svn on a remote windows 2012 server which is running iis and created a repository using tortoise svn. but i can only access the repository locally using svn://localhost. when i try accessing it remotely with svn://directIP, i get the error "cannot connect to host 'directIP'... ". however the ip address is valid and i can hit it with a web browser. but iis is the server handling all incoming request on the remote windows 2012 server. am thinking windows server is not allowing unauthorized remote access to the server, that is why am unable to access the repository remotely...is there a way i can access my tortoise svn repository remotely while my iis is still running? please i need help!
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TortoiseSVN is an SVN Client and not a server. So you need a running SVN server like VisualSVN Server. Also read the TortoiseSVN manual about accessing the repository.
If you are really able to access the repository at localhost via the svn:// protocol (and not with file:// protocol) this would indicate that a subversion server is already running. In this case it might be a firewall problem and you have to open the svn port 3690 on your Windows server.
