SVN errorcode=2 Could not open the requested SVN filesystem

Question

I've got MAMP running (XAMP for OSX), and I'm trying to setup subversion.

When I go to the freshly created repository in my browser, I get:

<D:error>
<C:error/>
<m:human-readable errcode="2">
Could not open the requested SVN filesystem
</m:human-readable>
</D:error>

The repository is setup in ~/server/svn. My html/php files are also there (~/server/http), and it works fine. My basic httpd.conf setup:

<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNPath ~/server/svntest
(Authenticaton will be added later)
</Location>

I've allready chmod'ed everything to 777

drwxrwxrwx   9 gerrit  staff       306 27 okt  2008 svn

Apache's errorlog does not show any errors.

How do I troubleshoot this?

Solution 1

What is ~/server/svntest? The web server doesn't normally have a home dir or even shell access, try substituting it for a full path.

Solution 2

Try running

svnadmin verify ~/svntest/svn

on the repository. If that reports errors, run:

svnadmin recover ~/svntest/svn

Solution 3

You can try using SVNParentPath instead of SVNPath if you are pointing to a folder having multiple repositories.

Solution 4

Change SELinux security context for repository files:

# chcon --reference=/var/www/html -R /var/svn/repos
# ll -Z /var/svn/repos
drwxr-xr-x  apache apache system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t /var/svn/repos

Solution 5

ln -s /home/subversion/repos /var/www/html/

you should NOT do that... access for "everyone"... without svn, svn-user, ...

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Comments

[David Hogue]

I don't think this was the problem that Gerrit had, but it did solve my problem, so thanks!