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Re: Repository Not Found with svn:ssh

From: Jerome Benezech <jbenezech_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 2007-06-07 08:44:01 CEST

Thanks.
Problem solved using --tunnel-user option to start
svnserve

--- Hari Kodungallur <hkodungallur@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/6/07, Jerome Benezech <jbenezech@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I finally got to compile subversion 1.4.3 on a
> > GNU/Linux server and now run into problems trying
> to
> > access it.
> >
> > I am running subversion on a shared host so it is
> > installed in my home directory and svnserve is
> started
> > with my user account.
> >
> > When starting snvserve like this:
> > svnserve -d -r /home/user/svn/repositories
> > I can connect to my repository fine using either
> > file:/// or svn://
> > svn ls svn://user@myhost.com/myproject works fine
> >
> > Now I would like to use SSH tunelling for remote
> > access. So I start svnserve like this:
> > svnserve -t -r /home/user/svn/repositories &
>
>
>
> You don't need to start the svnserve when trying to
> access the repository
> using svn+ssh.
> I believe the client sends to command over to the
> server to start svnserve.
> This usually means that svnserve should be in the
> default system path in
> order to start svnserve. And by default (unless you
> do some tricks:
>
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/ssh-tricks)
> it starts the server
> without the -r param. So the client has to provide
> the full path in the URL.
>
>
> Then I try to access the repository from my server,
> > using the same user account:
> > svn ls svn+ssh://user@myhost.com/myproject
> >
> > There I get the "No repository found" error. I
> tried
> > using several URL
> > svn ls
> >
>
svn+ssh://user@myhost.com/home/user/svn/repositories/myproject
>
>
> So, as explained above, this is the right way to
> access the repository using
> svn+ssh.
>
> However, I am lost why it could not find the
> repository. The only remotely
> possible reason I can think of is that the
> repository is not readable to
> 'user'. Usually the problem in such instances is
> when svnserve is not in the
> system path and it could not start it when executing
> the command. But in
> that case the error is not "No repository found".
> That error usually means
> just that -- no repository found.
>
>
> svn ls
> >
>
svn+ssh://user@myhost.com~/svn/repositories/myproject
> > ..
> >
> > None of these work. I really don't know where to
> go
> > from there and any help would be great.
> >
> >
>
> regards,
> -Hari
>

Jerome Benezech
jbenezech@yahoo.com

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