Re: Problem connecting to DAV based SVN with SVN client

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 05:04:45PM +0200, Jaroslaw Zgoda wrote:
> I try to setup SVN server using Apache 2.0.49 and got into some trouble. I
> followed strictly installation guidelines and now my server is running
> fine, I can access repository with various web browsers but not with SVN
> client.
>
> D:\UserData\Projects>svn checkout http://cpqenl866_200/svn/seitemeister
> svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/seitemeister'
> svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/seitemeister': timed out waiting for server
> (http://cpqenl866_200)

I've recently had a quasi-related problem, and perhaps the two
problems can shed light on each other (unless, as the timeout above
suggests, you have a more fundamental networking problem). I set up
DAV access to a new and empty repository; the top of the repository
was made available at /whatever/ and "DAV svn" and the rest was
declared for that Location. I then tried to import projects as
suggested in the manual like so:

  svn import . http://myhostname/whatever/

I then got an error like "PROPFIND request failed on /whatever".
Of course, DAV isn't on in /.

I got around this by doing a file:// import, but what did I do
wrong/sub-optimally, if anything? Is this a common newbie gotcha? It
sure felt like one when I was getting gotten :).

Cheers,

Jacob Smullyan