Repository Browser Only - "Repository moved permanently to… please relocate”

2
votes

I have the repository root at http://localhost/svn/ and a couple of projects

http://localhost/svn/project1
http://localhost/svn/project2
http://localhost/svn/project3
...

TortoiseSVN works all the time with these projects, only every time I try to access the root http://localhost/svn/ by using "Repository Browser" it returns "Repository moved permanently to http://localhost/; please relocate", while I'm sure the root is fine as I can open it in browsers and see a list of all projects, it's just not working in "Repository Browser". Any ideas?

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svntortoisesvn

2 Answers

3
votes

I suppose you have one SVN repository in each one of svn/project1, svn/project2, svn/project3 -- and that you have no SVN-related anything in svn.

You can see the content of svn in a browser because that directory is served by your webserver -- but it's not served as an SVN-related thing : it's just an HTML page that's sent to your browser.

As such, TortoiseSVN cannot work with it : svn is not an SVN repository.

0
votes

This has more to do with your Apache server configuration. You must configure the root of your repository there. In other words, you must have some something like this in your configuration files of your localhost:

<Location /svn>
  DAV svn
  SVNPath /var/svn/repository
</Location>

This single repository is where your three projects must reside. If your projects reside in single repositories, then you will need three different locations in your Apache server configuration as well.

So, the question here is, do you have three different subversion repositories, or just three different project folders under the same repo?

You can read more about your Apache server configuration in the book Version Control With Subversion, specifically Chapter 6 on the section The Apache Server

If you have multiple repositories as you seem to indicate, then you need to configure a SVNParentPath

<Location /svn>
  DAV svn

  SVNParentPath /var/svn
</Location>

And this should be where all your repos will reside on the server.