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[PATCH] Expand explanation for 301 error in FAQ

From: Martin A. Brooks <martin_at_hinterlands.org>
Date: 2005-12-14 17:35:16 CET

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Expand on what an overlap in the name space, producing a 301 error from
Apache, means, and give an example of how one could occur.
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Index: faq.html
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--- faq.html (revision 17772)
+++ faq.html (working copy)
@@ -2859,6 +2859,16 @@
 <tt>&lt;Location&gt;</tt> does <b>not</b> overlap or live within any
 areas already exported as normal web shares.</p>
 
+<p>It'a also possible that you have an object in the web root
+which has the same name as your repository URL. For example,
+imagine your web server's document root is <tt>/var/www</tt>
+and your Subversion repository is located at
+<tt>/home/svn/repo</tt>. You then configure Apache to serve
+the repository at <tt>http://localhost/myrepo</tt>. If you then
+create the directory <tt>/var/www/myrepo/</tt> this will cause
+a 301 error to occur.</p>
+
+
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