How do I IIS redirect on a different port for tortoise svn

Question

I installed VisualSVN on port 8080. So I can access it with http://www.mysite.com:8080 and everything works fine.

I now want to access the svn using http://svn.mysite.com instead of using port 8080. So I created a HTTP Redirect in IIS 7 for site svn.mysite.com (which is on port 80) to http://www.mysite.com:8080 (using permanent redirect).

This is working when I access the svn via a browser, however from within tortoise svn when I do Repository Browser, I see the following message:

Repository moved permanently to.... Please Relocate

Any ideas how to do this correctly?

Answer 1

The way I interpret the message you're getting is that the permanent redirect is telling Tortoise SVN that it needs to go to a different location to find the SVN server. Therefore, the client is telling you, as the user that you should update the configuration of your client repository. I suspect you need a proxy of some sort instead.

Answer 2

Subversion does not handle redirects. Instead it errors out and tells you to relocate the working copy to the new url so no redirection is needed.

Answer 3

Just to make sure you are aware of this: 'relocate' is actually a Subversion command :-)

So

Any ideas how to do this correctly?

• Right-click on the folder where you checked out (i.e. the working copy),
• click 'Relocate...',
• in the pop-up enter the new URL (i.e. replace http://www.mysite.com:8080 with http://svn.mysite.com) and
• click 'Ok'.