Subclipse and Eclipse - RA layer request failed

Question

I'm following the instructions for installing Ardor3D as an Eclipse Project Set via Subclipse; instructions at:

http://www.ardor3d.com/wiki/svneclipsetutorial

I installed Subclipse from

http://subclipse.tigris.org/

and installed fine. If I go to Eclipse's Preferences and Team|SVN I can see that the SVN Interface Client is JavaHL, and hence installed fine.

However, when I come to checkout the code at:

http://ardorlabs.svn.cvsdude.com/Ardor3Dv1

by selecting New|Other|SVN|Check Projects from SVN I get the following error message:

RA layer request failed svn: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'http://ardorlabs.svn.cvsdude.com/Ardor3Dv1' svn: OPTIONS of 'http://ardorlabs.svn.cvsdude.com/Ardor3Dv1': could not connect to server (http://ardorlabs.svn.cvsdude.com)

I know the URL is valid as I can install the above fine on my work m/c of WinXP. However, the same installation on my personal laptop of Win7 fails to connect.

I tried temporarily disabling the firewall and it still fails.

I've tried playing around with the config and server files in:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Subversion

but to be honest not 100% sure as what to change, if anything as I'm not using proxy settings.

If there's an expert out there who's knows the solution to this problem I would greatly appreciate hearing from you.

Thanks

Graham

PS. I find the error message "RA layer request failed" confusing as the URL is valid.

Answer 1

I had exactly the same problem, which turned out to be caused by a proxy server. The solution to my problem was to configure subversion to work with the proxy server, however it was not obvious how to do this.

You should have a directory similar to : C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Subversion

In that directory there will be a file called servers.

I un-commented and edited the following entries and my subversion is now working fine with Eclipse:

http-proxy-host
http-proxy-port
http-proxy-username
http-proxy-password

Why exactly you can't configure this through Eclipse is abit of a mystery, but there you go.