SVN Import: "Error: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem"

Question

Hi All!

I try to import my old project to new SVN server (svn + web_dav+apache), but however I get some weird error while importing with tortoiseSVN.

Adding: C:\tmp\carpirate\test  
Adding: C:\tmp\carpirate\test\crawlerTestSuite  
Adding: C:\tmp\carpirate\test\crawlerTestSuite\TestP2p.java  
Adding: C:\tmp\carpirate\test\crawlerTestSuite\TestMessageHandler.java  
Adding: C:\tmp\carpirate\test\crawlerTestSuite\TestGui.java  
Adding: C:\tmp\carpirate\test\crawlerTestSuite\TestListener.java  
Adding: C:\tmp\carpirate\test\crawlerTestSuite\TestServerConnection.java  
Adding: C:\tmp\carpirate\test\crawlerTestSuite\TestCollectorMind.java  
Error: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem

I checked read/write permissions from repository (tried to set all to 777), but nothing works. Neither commit do the job.

Do you have any clues, what I'm missing?

Answer 1

Is this a problem of repo format (BDS Berkeley DB or FSFS)?

If so, see Subversion FAQ How do I convert my repository from using BDB to FSFS or from FSFS to BDB?

Answer 2

We solved the problem, but the solution is a little bit messy and disappointing.

We moved repository parent to a path, with full read/write permissions for apache, authentication files were moved to apache configs, after all that it works.

I suspect it was matter to exclude plesk from webdav access.