SVN : 500 internal server error on my repository access

Question

Hi,

(OS is Ubuntu Server)

I create a new repository with SVN like that :

$ svnadmin create myrepo --pre-1.6-compatible

The first time, when I want to access in my new repository myrepo (with TortoiseSVN tool), I could reach in reading, but in writing, I couldn't (lock SVN message appears). So I found on forum post, a guy who recommanded to set all rights on repository like that :

$ chmod -r 770 myrootrepositories

And after that, I can't access to all my repositories ... with TortoiseSVN, this error appears when I want to access to a repository :

Server sent unexpected return value (500 Internal Server Error) in response to OPTIONS request for https://xx.xx.xx.xx/svn/myrepo

I restart all, but nothing change ...

Could you help me ?

Thank you very much,

Anthony

Answer 1

Set the ownership of the repository to the same user that runs svnserve.

Answer 2

I suspect the repositories have the 'group'. Set it to the same as the group as the webserver:

sudo chown -R :www-data myrootrepositories