svn: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem

Question

I tried to set up svn in the LAMPP environment. My svn repositories are in /var/svn/repos, and the repos directory is owned by root:root.

Now, when running the command

svn import test http://localhost/svn -m 'init'

I see this error message:

svn: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem

How can I make the command run successfully?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 07 '13 at 05:43

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You need the repository to be accessible by the web server (Apache). Change the user:group to something like apache:apache, httpd:httpd, or www-data:www-data.

answered Apr 07 '13 at 05:43

jimp

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I'm using lamp apache with root permission and I don't have apache user and group on my lampp apache – Md. Modasser Hossain Apr 07 '13 at 05:47
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Your Apache server is running as root? That isn't common. Did you configure it that way yourself? – jimp Apr 07 '13 at 05:53
when I browse http://localhost/svn then showing this error This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. Could not open the requested SVN filesystem – Md. Modasser Hossain Apr 07 '13 at 06:07
I'm sorry, but I'm not familiar with your error. Other than making sure you have your `/svn` path properly configured in a `` block with `DAV svn` and a correct `SVNParentPath` I'm not sure what else to suggest. – jimp Apr 07 '13 at 06:11

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 04 '16 at 07:07

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please run this command under your repo after running "chown -R apache:apache *". You have to change file and directory permission as well

 find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

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answered Aug 04 '16 at 06:51

Jack Wang

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This worked for me on centos 8.2 CWP, SVN 1.10. I could only get it to work otherwise if I did 777 on whole repo. Looks like newer versions work better. – Beeeaaar Jul 12 '23 at 21:02

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 01 '17 at 12:28

Go to SVNParentPath Directory Here my directory path is /var/www/svn

cd /var/www/svn/

Create a Repository Under SVNParentPath

svnadmin create repo_name

Give Apache Permission

chown -R apache:apache repo_name/

Create a SVN User

htpasswd -m /etc/httpd/conf/.htpasswd username

Assign Permission

vi /etc/svnusers
[repo_name:/]

username=rw

Restart Apache Service

service httpd restart

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 09 '14 at 23:37

I had same problem with my subversion (1.6) on default repository of cent OS. Finally i un-installed svn and install latest version(1.8). My problem solved.

To install svn latest version follow this link. http://tecadmin.net/install-subversion-1-8-on-centos-rhel/

tanius · Answer 5 · 2015-07-26T07:11:33.180

You might have run into the SVN issue with custom error documents. Fix it:

If you've got a custom 404 ErrorDocument that's enabled under the repository location, you might be faced with '500 Cannot load the requested SVN filesystem' – solve this by resetting the ErrorDocument directive in the Location block; a working configuration is below:
<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName localhost
  DocumentRoot /var/www
  <Location /svn>
    DAV svn
    SVNPath /var/svn/repos
    ErrorDocument 404 default
  </Location>
</VirtualHost>

This is from RimuHosting's subversion HowTo. The important line is ErrorDocument 404 default – add this to the <Location …> block that configures a location for SVN, reload the Apache config, and it should be fine.

^{(I guessed your SVN repo is probably mapped to http://localhost/svn/ and adapted config directives in the quotation accordingly.)}

svn: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem

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