On Jun 9, 2012, at 07:37, Dietmar Fleischhauer (WhereGroup) wrote: > after migrating some repositories to a new server with the same > directory layout and permissions (but new OS and svn), I get the > following error: > > <D:error> > <C:error/> > <m:human-readable errcode="2"> Could not open the requested SVN > filesystem </m:human-readable> > </D:error>
This usually means you haven't configured your web server properly for where your repositories are actually located on disk. > The data was dumped with svnadmin and then loaded into a freshly created > repo on the new server (from SVN 1.5 on Debian 4.0 to v. 1.6 on Debian > 6.0). The dav module is installed, and I couldn't find a difference in > it's configuration. > > Comparing the old and new repo directories, I found one difference: the > old repos contain a sub-folder "dav" with a file "activities", which are > missing in the new repo. And indeed, the "svnadmin create" on the old > server creates an (empty) dav folder on the fly, while the new one does > not. Manually creating such a folder didn't have any effect. > > The Apache config looks like this: > > <Location /wheregroup> > DAV svn > SVNPath "/data/svn/myproject" > AuthzSVNAccessFile "/etc/apache2/authz" > AuthType Basic > AuthName "SVN" > AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/pw > AuthGroupFile /etc/apache2/pwg > Require group svngroup > </Location> Above you said "some repositories", meaning more than one, but here, you've configured Apache to serve a single repository. Is /data/svn/myproject a repository, or is it a directory containing multiple repositories? Or: where are your repositories on disk? What is the URL that you're accessing?
