Comments on: “Could not open the requested SVN filesystem”

By: Ted S

Ted S — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:00:44 +0000

Many thanks for this post. I wish I had only spent a couple of hours on this issue, but it was three days!

A note of clarification for others:

“lol, you need to chown/chgrp the repos to your apache’s user” in plain language is “You must change the directory’s owner for the directory used in the Apache Location directive”. In my case that was:

[root@ ~]# chown apache:apache -R /var/svn

Thanks, Ted S.

By: arthemis

arthemis — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:04:41 +0000

Thanks, that was exactly what i’ve been looking for.

By: mumbar

mumbar — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:31:40 +0000

Thank you!! You did save me much time. Laconic and helpful.

By: mcgrue

mcgrue — Wed, 04 May 2011 06:40:26 +0000

No problem. My philosophy is “if I was angry and solving it took many hours, I could probably save others some time by posting about it…”

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 04 May 2011 06:28:09 +0000

Much swearing googling led me here, and this solved my issue. Thanks for sharing.

By: PHP Guru

PHP Guru — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:20:42 +0000

Thanks for the examples – now it makes sense. Very helpful!

By: Dima Gutzeit

Dima Gutzeit — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:57:30 +0000

Thanks. I was banging by head in the wall over this for two hours and the answer was so simple …

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:10:56 +0000

You are the man. Unless you’re a woman named Ben.

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By: Wayne

Wayne — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:52:34 +0000

Just wanted to say THANKS for posting this… I ran into this today at work — someone had made a bad edit in a previously-working httpd.conf file — and changing to SVNParentPath fixed it.