loaded a subversion dump but it's inaccessible

Question

I received a dump file of a SVN repository that I'm moving to my server. Let's call it myserver.com/svn. The load statement prints out a long list of files loaded and reports no error. However, once I try to access the repository for checkout, or relocate my existing checkout, I'm told:

Repository moved temporarily to 'http://www.myserver.com/svn'; please relocate

In other words, my new repository reports that it has temporarily moved to itself. How do I get past that? I can't find anything about this message in documentation about the svnadmin load command.

Answer 1

I think someone has added a hook script to inform you that your repository is now at another URL.

If this was not expected, it might indicate a security issue.

Answer 2

I heard of a few cases where this was caused by adding a '/' at the end of the path in the <Location directive in the apache configuration.

Please remove the '/' if you added one.

Answer 3

subversion generates a UUID (Universally Unique ID) whenever it creates a repository. I believe that in order to use the UUID from your original repo you need to ad "--force-uuid" to your svnadmin load command.

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.ref.svnadmin.c.load.html

Answer 4

It could be that your server is configured to redirect all errors to somewhere (ie the homepage). The line you should look for would be called something like

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.myserver.com/svn

SVN apparently uses 404 (not found) errors in order to add new resources. You must allow this one to pass through instead of making a redirection, or svn will get confused.