Ubuntu Subversion with Windows Client

Question

I installed subversion on my Ubuntu server and I can use subclipse (1.6) in Eclipse Helios on Ubuntu and it works fine.

However when I try and use Subclipse (1.6) in Eclipse Helios on Windows, it doesn't work and I get errors.
In Windows when I use http://serverAddress/svn, I get an error saying folder doesn't exist and an error in the console saying:

Repository has been moved
svn: Repository moved permanently to 'http://serverAddress/svn/'; please relocate

When I use svn://serverAddress/svn, I get an issue as well.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

This is not an Eclipse issue, but a SVN issue.

If you could see your repo in a web browser, the SVN FAQ mentions an httpd.conf error. But in your case:

• either you haven't created a repository yet (see svnadmin create)

• or you have a repo, but haven't create properly a directory in it, a bit like in this thread:

I then created a subdirectory "projectx" under ~/webapps/svn with subdirectories "trunk", "branches" etc and then ran:

$ svn import projectx file:///home/<user>/webapps/svn/projectx -m "first import".

projectx/trunk etc showed up fine on Trac, and https://svn.<user>.webfactional.com/projectx/ showed up fine in the browser, with proper authentication etc. All well and good.

However, when attempting to check out the project from trunk (using Tortoise SVN), I got this error:

Command: Checkout from https://svn.<user>.webfactional.com/projectx/trunk, revision HEAD, Fully recursive, Externals included  
Error: Repository moved permanently to   
Error: 'http://svn.<user>.webfactional.com/projectx/trunk/'; please relocate  

With the solution being:

You've created directories on the filesystem below your repo, eg ~/webapps/svn/projectx. That's the wrong way.

You should instead use 'svn mkdir' to create the directories.

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If this is not enough, see also this SO question, where it mentions that the repository address is usually http://servername/svn/repositoryname, not http://servername/svn.