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Asked: 2026-05-11T01:31:10+00:00

Is this possible? I had troubles with SVN clients not being able to access

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Is this possible? I had troubles with SVN clients not being able to access the repository with the following error message:

Repository moved permanently to ‘http://svn.example.com/test/‘; please relocate

If I added the ‘/’ to the end of the path I was trying to access, it just strips it off again, and shows the same error message. My configuration file looks like:

<VirtualHost *>   ServerName svn.example.com   # Normal VirtualHost stuff here    <Location /svn>     # Uncomment this to enable the repository     DAV svn     SVNParentPath /some/path/to/repositories      # Setup mod_authz_svn, etc, etc here   </Location> </VirtualHost>

Note: This works. But if I change the Location to just / it stops working again with the error above. Is it possible to use the root directory, or am I missing something here? Firefox displays the repository listing fine when serving the repositories out of the root.

As someone else pointed out, this only seems to be an issue inside named virtual hosts… Anyone have any smart ideas why?

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  1. The problem is that you are using the document root also as the repository root (I’m not blaming you, this should just work, but it doesn’t).

    Try pointing the DocumentRoot and SVNParentPath directives to different physical locations, so the resulting config file should look like this (abbreviated):

    <VirtualHost *:80>     DocumentRoot /home/svn.example.com/docroot      <Location />         SVNParentPath /home/svn.example.com/svnroot         SVNListParentPath on     </Location> </VirtualHost>

    Also, as @Nigel Jewell says, remove that Rewrite block, for sanity.

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