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I am trying to connect Subversion client on a Red Hat machine to a Windows Server 2012 machine with VisualSVN Server running. My goal is to run an svn export via a shell script on the linux machine to retrieve code for the development server.

First I tried to connect using the default https Repo connection string..

svn export --username user --password pass https://OPSSVN1/svn/volunteers/ ./svn-export

the linux box returns...

svn: Server sent unexpected return value (501 Not Implemented) in response to OPTIONS request for 'https://OPSSVN1/volunteers'

So I went and installed svnserve.exe as a service listening on to 3960 and changed the script to..

svn export --username user --password pass svn://OPSSVN1:3960/volunteers/ ./svn-export

I get the following message

svn: Can't connect to host 'OPSSVN1': Connection refused

Now if I use either connection string from a window's desktop it works fine.

Other facts known that might help...

  • The Windows server has the firewall opened up for the port.
  • The linux box can ping the machine
  • the linux box can Telnet into port 443 on the windows box
  • The linux box cannot telnet into port 3960 on the windows box
  • Linux SVN version: svn, version 1.6.11 (r934486)
  • VisualSVN Version 2.7.2

The SVN service I setup on windows was done with the following command.

cmd /c sc create subversion binpath="c:\svnserve\svnserve.exe --service -r E:\Repositories --listen-port 3960"

With the folder svnserve being a symbolic link to the visualsvn bin folder thats in the program files x86 directory.

Any ideas on how I can get this linux box to export the code from VisualSVN?

Scott Bonner
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  1. It looks like that you enter invalid URL.

    Where did you get the URL https://OPSSVN1/volunteers/? URLs of VisualSVN Server repositories usually look like https://<hostname>/svn/<repository-name>. In your case the URL has to be https://OPSSVN1/svn/volunteers/ unless you hide VisualSVN Server behind a reverse-proxy.

  2. You are using too outdated Subversion 1.6.11 client on Linux machine.

    Subversion 1.6 is no longer supported starting with 1.8 release. The particular 1.6.11 version was released on 19 Apr 2010 and is too outdated. It's behind 11 patch releases, in fact. The latest Subversion 1.6.23 client was released on 30 May 2013 and includes a lot of fixes. If you must use svn 1.6 client, at least update it to the latest patch release then.

    On the other hand, you have to consider upgrading your clients to the latest Subversion 1.8 release.

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