An SVN error (200 OK) when checking out from my online repo

Question

I'm trying to setup my first repo on my host and am getting this error when I use Tortoise to checkout the project:

Error: OPTIONS of 'http://mywebsite.com/svn/myproject': 200 OK (http://mywebsite.com)

Here is what I did:

1) ssh into my host and head to /home/myaccnt and 'svnadmin create svn'

2) create my project repo: 'svn mkdir svn/myproject'

3) add files to the repo: cd /home/myaccnt/.../myproject (which has /tags, /branch, /trunk); 'svn import file:///home/myaccnt/svn/myproject' (the big ole list of files being added is seen at this point.)

At this point I think that I've setup my repo and imported my project into the repo. So, I'm ready to checkout using TortoiseSVN on my Windows box. So:

4) In the folder I'd like to checkout to, I rightclick and 'SVN Checkout' and then make sure my URL is: http://mywebsite.com/svn/myproject

Result?

Error: OPTIONS of 'http://mywebsite.com/svn/myproject': 200 OK (http://mywebsite.com)

Anyone have any thoughts for me? I'm likely missing something fundemental w/ the structure of my repo or htaccess... or something.

Many thanks in advance.

-JL

Answer 1

If you change the checkout address from "http://mywebsite.com/svn/myproject" to "svn://mywebsite.com/svn/myproject", does it start working? If so, maybe you didn't set up the HTTP protocol for SVN access?

Answer 2

Apparently, this is more a restriction issue by my host. Working w/ them to resolve it.

Thanks, 1800.

BTW, the answer here was that my host, A2 Web Hosting, requires that SVN be handled via SSH using a public_key and configuring, in my case, Tortoise to do the job. It was sort of funky for someone who has just a little experience setting up keys but it was pretty satisfying once it was done!

You can find info about SVN on the A2 host in their support wiki.

Answer 3

Try to put / on the end of url. Change the checkout address from "http://mywebsite.com/svn/myproject" to "http://mywebsite.com/svn/myproject/".

Answer 4

Hello,

I had to dig into this issue too and found the following pages which lead me to the solution: - http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel/117844 (See espacially the link to "Julian's patch")

There is stated that the "OPTIONS of : 200 () OK" error is quite missleading and often just means that the repository URL is wrong.

Hope this helps somebody.

Best regards.

Answer 5

A modification of the first response worked for me.

My repository uses SSH. The URL was given to me as https:// (for HTTPS access) and I eventually figured out that the protocol on the URL needed to be changed.

Using the command-line client: $ svn checkout svn+ssh:///svnroot//

(No key configuration was needed.)

Answer 6

I just had this problem. My subversion server was on a non-standard port. So effectively my repository URL was wrong. Just something else to check...

Answer 7

I had a similar problem with a simple "svn list" command.

To extend Vitor Mateus' answer regarding slashes; While setting up my own repository using Apache on an in-house server, my original Location tag in the apache2 config file looked like

<Location "/svn/repo_address/">
    ...
</Location>

where there was a trailing "/" after "repo_address". There should not be a slash there:

<Location "/svn/repo_address">
    ...
</Location>

Something subtle, but it makes a huge difference. Now a call to

svn list http://my.server.com/svn/repo_address

works fine. Sometimes it helps to read the manual carefully ;-)

Answer 8

For me, the error was on the server side, and it was because I forgot to uncomment DAV svn in the config /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf (on debian)