Setup Subversion for http checkout (using TortoiseSVN)

Question

I am new to Subversion, and my project requires that I access my repository through http.

I already created the repository on my hosted server (bluehost, centos7), and I am trying to access it from another computer through http.

From reading some tutorial (this among others), I understand that I need to configure subversion.conf file, which should be located on '/etc/httpd/conf.d/'.

When I looked at that location, I didn't see that file. In addition, the tutorial says that the configuration file should reference 'mod_dav_svn.so' and 'mod_authz_svn.so' modules.

Talking to support, I understood that subversion was not initialized with mod_dav_svn, so I set it up myself. However, I didn't find the 'mod_dav_svn.so' and 'mod_authz_svn.so' in the '/usr/local/apache/modules/' folder. Instead I found them in the '/usr/lib64/httpd/modules/' folder.

Currently, when I try to access my repository (using TortoiseSVN), I get several kind of errors, depending the url that I try to use (with/without 'trunk' at the end, not sure what I need to use):

Redirect cycle detected for URL (http://example.com/path/to/repos/RepoName)
Unexpected HTTP status 405 'Method Not Allowed' (http://example.com/path/to/repos/RepoName/trunk)

when I checkout the repo locally on the server, I use: svn co file:///path/to/repos/RepoName/trunk

when I surf to:

I just see the repository created folders (conf,db,hooks,locks). I don't get to see a request for password, or the "Revision 0", or my own repository project.

my "/etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf":

LoadModule dav_svn_module     /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module   /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_authz_svn.so

# Add the following to allow a basic authentication and point Apache to where the actual
# repository resides.
<Location /repos>
        DAV svn
        SVNPath /path/to/repos/
        AuthType Basic
        AuthName "Subversion repos"
        AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-conf
        Require valid-user
</Location>

apache error log:

[error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does not exist: /path/to/repos/RepoName/trunk

I am completely lost. What do I need to do now in order to be able to checkout the repository using TortoiseSVN?

Lazy Badger Lazy Badger · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-12T23:05:16

If|when "Redirect cycle detected for" appear for http-based SVN, it means (most time) misconfiguration for location: DAV-served <Location> must be pure virtual and does not exist on real filesystem of web-server tree. It seems you have /repos as real directory inside your Apache's home
In case of SVNPath /path/to/repos/ /path/to/repos/ have to be path to real repository, which exist in repos/ dir directly, but according to your text

... I use: svn co file:///path/to/repos/RepoName/trunk

your repository may be deeper, than in repos/??? Yo'll have to find location of your repository, fix errors (in common you can't have both repositories /path/to/repos and /path/to/repos/RepoName at the same time (repository have predefined tree and can't contain at filesystem-level another repository), with SVNPath /path/to/repos/ you can't have access to more than single repo in /path/to/repos/)

Setup Subversion for http checkout (using TortoiseSVN)

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