SVN Can't connect to host

Question

We have a SVN repository setup on a remote host server. We have a brand new Dev server which eventually I will be setting up our repository on there, but for now I am trying to export a project onto the dev server from SVN. When I try to do it, I get svn: Can't connect to host 'website.com': Connection timed out.

I can connect fine from any other server so I am assuming it must be something on the dev server, I am just not sure what setting might be blocking this. I can ping the server and that comes back with results, I thought maybe since it was a local network server, there might of been something blocking access to the external web.

I'm just looking for a few ideas as to what it might be.

Answer 1

This may seem low level, but double check you are using the protocol to connect that the server is set up for (svn:// for svn, http:// for http, ssh+svn:// for svn over ssh) and double check your firewall settings.

SVN uses port 3690 if you are connecting using the SVN protocol (default for new setups), (obviously) port 80 for the HTTP protocol, and (again obviously) port 22 for the SSH protocol.