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Re: Strange behaviour with 'svn' in the host name

From: <kevin_at_klystron.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:39:04 -0000 (UTC)

We're not using Apache - the repositories are just served by 'svnserve'.

Or does 'svnserve' magically use part of Apache in a manner which we're
not expecting or aware of? Are we right in believing that 'svnserve' is a
completely stand-alone daemon?

But there is a little update which is even more confusing. I created
repositories Repo1 and Repo2 with the 'svnadmin create' command. Repo2 is
moved down one level into a normal directory immediately below the SVN
root and Repo1 is left in the 'normal' place. In this case

    svn://www.example.com/Repo1
    svn://www.example.com/Subdir/Repo2
    svn://svn.example.com/Repo1

all work just fine, but

    svn://svn.example.com/Subdir/Repo2

reports "repository not found".

>
> On Nov 5, 2008, at 10:05, the writer wrote:
>
>> (All domain names changed for anonymity!)
>>
>> We have a fully working repository at
>>
>> svn://www.example.com/Repo
>>
>> Our DNS is set up so that svn.example.com and www.example.com
>> return the exact same address. But trying to access
>>
>> svn://svn.example.com/Repo
>>
>> results in the error "no repository found". (Note - not "host not
>> found"!)
>>
>> Actually, the 'real' name of the same host is 'frank', and
>>
>> svn://frank.example.com/Repo
>>
>> works just fine too.
>>
>> So is there something about including the letters 'svn' in the host
>> name which makes subversion go funny?
>
> Nope!
>
>> We are hosting the repository with svnserve 1.4.6 under Ubuntu
>> Hardy, and using TortoiseSVN 1.5.5 under Win2k as the client.
>>
>> Anyone got any clues?
>
> Something else in your Apache configuration keying off the letters
> "svn"? Even a proxy server somewhere doing something strange with
> those letters? What does the Apache error log say at the time when
> the error occurs?
>

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