SVN Error: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem

Question

I installed the ffg and subsequently the SVN document on Windows Server 2008:

1. Subversion-Setup-Subversion-1.5.1.en-us
2. Apache-httpd-2.2.19-win32-x86-no_ssl
3. TSVN- TortoiseSVN-1.6.16.21511-win32-svn-1.6.17

Here are the settings for Location:

<Location /svn>
  DAV svn
  SVNListParentPath on
  SVNParentPath C:\SVN
</Location>

When I tried to open the URL in the browser, http://localhost/svn/test, I got this error:

SVN Error: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem.

What is the problem and how can I fix it?

Answer 1

First, the Apache error log file contains more information about such errors.

Since you're using Windows Server 2008 and the repositories are on the C drive, it's possible that the access restrictions prevent the Apache process from accessing them. Add the user the Apache process runs under (could be SYSTEM if it runs as a service) to the C:\SVN folder recursively with full access.

And make sure that there actually is a repository at C:\SVN\test

Answer 2

My situation

I moved my SVN data from one server to another, got everything setup and working great, except that when I created a new file and tried and commit it to the SVN, I got the following error (ONLY on commit of a new file (add), update works fine (existing files)).

$ svn commit -am 'testing commit'
Adding         trunk/public_html/mynewtestfile.txt
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem
svn: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem

My Vhosts is set up in a way that I can have multiple repositories within the same directory, and I can access them like so:

http://svn.mydomain.com/repo1
http://svn.mydomain.com/repo2

It turns out that in my vhosts.conf (or httpd.conf or wherever you setup your virtual hosts) is using SVNParentPath so that I can access my SVN repositories using the URLs above.

Q. How do I setup multiple SVN repositories in the same directory on my server?

A: https://serverfault.com/questions/461144/vhost-setup-for-multiple-svn-repositories

Now, I could have either setup the SVN in my vhosts separately to fix this error (check my answer on the ServerFault post) (svn: Could not open...), or I just had to create another SVN repo in my repos directory called error.

I created this repository like so:

#Inside your repository's directory, create an error repository.
svnadmin create error

This seemed to resolve all my errors with committing code through my SVN.