It was actually a Location directive I. Apache. I had to do an Allow from IP address in that block in order to solve the problem.
Thanks for you reply Tim Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 8, 2015, at 7:45 PM, Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> wrote: > >> On 08.01.2015 21:50, Tim Dunphy wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I've configured subversion 1.8.10 from source with the serf >> configuration option. >> >> Everything seemed to go smoothly. But when I try to do a checkout >> from my repository I get this error: >> >> [root@aozmpwslp004la ~]# svn co http://$(hostname >> -i)/svn/localmedia/applications/elections >> svn: E175013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL >> 'http://xx.xx.xx.xx/svn/localmedia/applications/elections' >> svn: E175013: Access to '/svn/localmedia/applications/elections' forbidden >> >> >> In my apache configuration I have the following entry: >> >> <Directory /var/www/svn> >> Options +Indexes >> AllowOverride All >> Order allow,deny >> Allow From all >> AuthType Basic >> AuthName "Web SVN Browser" >> AuthUserFile /var/www/svn/svn-auth-file >> AuthzSVNAccessFile /var/www/svn/accessfile >> Require valid-user >> </Directory> >> >> Alias /svn /var/www/svn >> >> And this is what I'm seeing in the apache error logs: >> >> [Thu Jan 08 15:47:27 2015] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] client denied >> by server configuration: /var/www/svn/localmedia/applications >> >> Can I get some advice on how I can get past this error? > > The user as which the httpd process is running must have read and write > access to the physical files and directories in the repository. > > -- Brane >