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Re: hint for the documentation

From: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster_at_gmx.de>
Date: 2005-02-04 15:16:02 CET

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 07:52 -0600, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2005, at 4:40 AM, Toralf Förster wrote:
>
> > In chapter 6 of the subversion doc you explain the acces of an
> > repossitory via a web browser
> > (file:///home/tfoerste/trunk/doc/book/book/html-chunk/ch06s04.html)
> >
> > One hint for the users would be nice. That is, that the access of a
> > repository via webbrowser should be terminated with the slash '/', that
> > means rather type http://localhost/svn/repos/testrepo/ into the browser
> > than http://localhost/svn/repos/testrepo to prevent a browser error
> > like
> > "The connection was refused by ..." and getting a log entry from
> > apache2
> > like:
> >
> > [Fri Feb 04 11:38:39 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Could not fetch
> > resource information. [301, #0]
> > [Fri Feb 04 11:38:39 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (84)Invalid or
> > incomplete multibyte or wide character: Requests for a collection must
> > have a trailing slash on the URI. [301, #0]
> >
>
> A trailing slash is "correct", but it's not necessary. If mod_dav_svn
> receives a request without a trailing slash, it will automatically add
> one.
>
> Try it on svn's own repository: http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn
>
> So if you're getting this error, then there must be something wrong
> with your apache setup.

Yep, the servername was not set in apache2.conf (resp. in httpd.conf), I found the solution here :
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2004/02/19/apache_ckbk.html?page=2

Received on Fri Feb 4 15:18:27 2005

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