Tortoise won't connect to subversion server

Question

I'm trying to setup my home server with a Subversion repo on it (after some changes).

I uninstalled-reinstalled VisualSVN Server on the Windows Server 2003 server box and the address (i.e. URL) to the repo is https://server.network.local/svn/.

I can browse via IE to that address, and get the repository list (I do have to click past the certificate error though), but when I point tortoise to it as well, I get

OPTIONS of 'https://server.network.local/svn': Could not resolve hostname
'server.network.local': No such host is known.
(https://server.network.local)

I can ping and tracert to the server no problem though, so I'm not sure what the deal is.

Answer 1

I had the same problem, as far as I can tell you can’t go straight to the SVN folder you need to include a repository file name in the path example:

https://server.network.local:8443/svn/MyNewRepository

Hope that helps

Answer 2

You have to clear your local DNS cache (and if you have a DNS on your LAN, you'll also have to do that with that DNS cache).

Answer 3

There is a note at the very bottom of the VisualSVN Server Getting Started guide and it answers the question. The note reads:

Unlike web browsers, Subversion clients are unable to access the content of the Repositories node in the VisualSVN Server Manager. In other words, you are unable to access https://svn.example.com/svn/ URL using Subversion clients such as TortoiseSVN or svn.exe.

I.e. Subversion client can access a repository but the URL https://server.network.local/svn/ points not to a repository, but to a repository root collection which you can view only with a web browser.

I also want to note that the error stated in the question can be different with newer Subversion clients. It can be:

XML parse error at line 1 no element found

Answer 4

You might want to make your link 'https://server.network.local:8443/svn' and see if that makes a difference. I have that port on a tortise installation that I use.

Rick Strahl has a pretty good article on how to setup and run VisualSVN.

Hope this works for you.