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JellicleCat
Asked: 2013-02-06 07:29:50 +0800 CST

svn+ssh:// works, but not svn://

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I'm running svnserve on a server, but I can only access it with the svn+ssh protocol, not svn. (This appears to present a problem when I try to checkout from it with Capistrano.) Can anyone point out what might be wrong?

Svn's machine:

[root@machine ~]# service svnserve status
svnserve (pid  13166) is running...

Local machine:

$ svn info svn+ssh://root@<svnserver>.com/svnrepos/myrepo
-- returns fine
$ svn info svn://<svnserver>.com/svnrepos/myrepo
svn: E170001: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn://<svnserver>.com/svnrepos/myrepo'
svn: E170001: No access allowed to this repository

I have even tried making use of the --username and --password params but have had exactly the same results.

UPDATE:

To set up Subversion, I followed the brief instructions to Setup a Subversion Server in 4 Minutes. My only deviation from its instructions was to kill the daemon svnserve process after I found it wasn't working for the svn:// protocol and then use service to start svnserve. (It likewise didn't work.)

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Answering your question would be easier if you provide :

    • What you have done so far to make it work (eg set up svnserve, ...)
    • OS version.

    Therefore, I'll make the following assumption :

    • Nothing has been done so far to make svnserve works
    • You are using RHEL (service status).

    Here's an untested setup (from memory and man pages):

    • Edit /etc/sysconfig/svnserve
    OPTIONS="--threads --root /path/to/svnroot"
    • Edit /path/to/svnroot/conf/svnserve.conf
    
[general]
anon-access = none
auth-access = read
password-db = passwd
realm = My First Repository
    • Edit /path/to/svnroot/conf/passwd
    
[users]
joeuser = joepassword
jayrandom = randomjay
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