I’ve upgraded the Ubuntu server hosting my Subversion repository and now can’t access svn.
http://hostname/svn
is giving me no response and Subclipse says :
Propfind 405 method not allowed.
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The issue was that during the upgrade process I had opted to overwrite dav_svn.conf in /etc/apache2/mods-available/ with a new version – effectively de-configuring Subversion in apache.
Fortunately the upgrade process saved a copy of the original as dav_svn.conf.dpkg-old in the same directory, so I was able to use the following to see the differences and restore the configuration:
To finish, reload the Apache config: