Comments on: Subversion Fix: svn copy causes “Repository moved permanently to ‘…’; please relocate

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:31:59 +0000

Many thanks, this solved what was becoming a very irritating problem. I’d been using Codendi to manage my repositories. Moving the repos out, editing the config file and then making a symbolic link from the codendi location to the new repo location worked a treat. I just need to port the rest of my repos over having proved it on one.

Thanks again, Ian

By: Neill

Neill — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:04:21 +0000

Thanks for the solution and the clear explanation. now I also understand the root cause of this problem.

By: Problem with Apache2 and Subversion on openSUSE 11.4 solved | Torbjörn Klatt

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:35:18 +0000

[...] Having the SVN repository root in /srv/svn, the vhost root in /srv/www/ and declaring an alias /svn pointing to /srv/svn (Alias /svn "/srv/svn") in /etc/apache2/conf.d/subversion.conf is throwing up Apache’s DAV SVN module (as described here). [...]

By: HowTo: Apache2 and Subversion (SVN) with Access Control on openSUSE 11.4

HowTo: Apache2 and Subversion (SVN) with Access Control on openSUSE 11.4 — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:27:12 +0000

[...] in /etc/apache2/conf.d/subversion.conf is throwing up Apache's DAV SVN module (as described here). Browsing the repository in a random webbrowser is possible and does not throw any warnings or [...]

By: sufferer

sufferer — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:36:34 +0000

Thank so so much for this report and fix. Initially I had the svn-repo in /srv/svn and the webserver was pointing to /srv/www/. That DAV_SVN is having problems with HTTPD Aliases is written nowhere. Thank you very much.

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 04:48:53 +0000

Bo,

What is the file path that Apache serves files from if you visit http://www.xxx.yyy.zz/webdav?

If it is /opt/apache-2.2.17/httpd/Physics/webdav, then you likely have Apache and mod_dav_svn fighting over who will serve the requests. The fix, if this is the case, is to move your repository folder (…/repository) outside of …/httpd, and set the SVNPath to the new path to …/repository.

It’s just a guess, but that’s a problem that I have run into before.

-Kris

By: Bo Thidé

Bo Thidé — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:59:11 +0000

I have tried to follow the instructions above but still haven’t succeeded to use my remote svn-activated WebDAV apache server [Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) DAV/2 SVN/1.6.16 Server at ... ] but have failed miserably, time and time again.

Even with setup on the remote WebDAV svn server as simple as:

DAV svn
SVNPath /opt/apache-2.2.17/httpd/Physics/webdav/SVN/repository

and using the following command on my local machine (xxx.yyy.zz replacing the actual part of the WebDAV URL)

svn import http://www.xxx.yyy.zz/webdav/SVN/repository

yields the error

svn: Repository moved permanently to ‘http://www.xxx.yyy.zz/webdav /SVN/repository/’; please relocate

After working in vain for days trying to set up svn on the WebDAV server I have to ask myself if it is worth the effort. How difficult can it be???
Grateful for any help,

By: daniela

daniela — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:16:34 +0000

Hi all

I have a similar problem but when i try to do a svn checkout.

I get this error

:/var/www# svn co http://10.0.0.1/Prueba/trunk/ prueba
svn: Repository moved permanently to ‘http://10.0.0.1/Prueba/trunk/ prueba’; please relocate

How can i fix this??

Thanks

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:50:50 +0000

Thanks for the note! I added it to the post as another think to look for.

By: Shrenik

Shrenik — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:03:03 +0000

Issue solved.

Discovered one more way to reproduce this problem.

Alias /iarepos “/srv/svn/iarepos”

This should not have been there. Had tried commenting this before as well but may be the sequence of changes and tests were not well-coordinated.
Removing this solved the issue.