Unable to get subversion 1.4 to work

James Cornell sparcdr at mac.com
Thu Oct 12 08:24:34 PDT 2006


I use the standalone Subversion client recommended by the WebKit.org  
site instead of DarwinPorts' version.

Direct Link:
http://metissian.com/projects/macosx/subversion/

James Cornell

On Oct 12, 2006, at 6:19 AM, Elise van Looij wrote:

> A few days ago I decided I really needed version control, so I  
> installed Subversion. I already have Apache2, mySQL and PHP  
> installed via DarwinPorts, liked the simplicity of the process and  
> decided to go the same route with Subversion. The problem is I  
> can't Subversion to get to work for the life of me, always getting  
> the same error "svn: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem"
>
> I've installed the following:
> subversion @1.4.0_0+mod_dav_svn
> apache2 @2.2.3_0      (I did an update around the same time)
>
> I've used svnadmin to create a repository at /usr/local/svn- 
> repository.
> Then I've edited the httpd.conf file as follows:
> ------------------------------------------------
> Listen 8080
>
> LoadModule dav_svn_module     modules/mod_dav_svn.so
>
> <Location /svn>
>    DAV svn
>    SVNPath /usr/local/svn-repository
> </Location>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> According to all the tutorials and articles I've been able to find,  
> I should now be able to connect to svn via http://localhost:8080/ 
> svn but all I get is the "Could not open the requested SVN  
> filesystem". I've tried changing the owner of the directory to www  
> (which is the HTTP user), but still no go.
>
> When I try to do an import on the command line, I get:
>
> svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn'
> svn: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem"
>
> The Apache error log says:
>
> [Thu Oct 12 12:05:39 2006] [error] [client ::1] Could not open the  
> requested SVN filesystem  [500, #2]
> [Thu Oct 12 12:05:39 2006] [error] [client ::1] File does not  
> exist: /opt/local/apache2/htdocs/favicon.ico
> [Thu Oct 12 12:06:08 2006] [error] [client ::1] (20014)Internal  
> error: Can't open file '/usr/local/Subversion/format': No such file  
> or directory
>
> I'd really appreciate some help. I've googled all over the net but  
> I can't find the solution.
>
> Elise van Looij
> new to the macports list
>
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