Tortoise won't connect to subversion server

Question

I'm trying to setup my home server with a subversion repo on it (after some changes).

I uninstalled-reinstalled visualsvn server on the win2k3 server box and the address to the repo is https://server.network.local/svn/.

I can browse via IE to that address, and get the repository list (I do have to click past the certificate error though), but when I point tortoise to it as well, I get

OPTIONS of 'https://server.network.local/svn': Could not resolve hostname
'server.network.local': No such host is known.
(https://server.network.local)

I can ping and tracert to the server no problem though, so I'm not sure what the deal is.

Answer 1

I had the same problem, as far as I can tell you can’t go straight to the SVN folder you need to include a repository file name in the path example:

https://server.network.local:8443/svn/MyNewRepository

Hope that helps

Answer 2

You might want to make your link 'https://server.network.local:8443/svn' and see if that makes a difference. I have that port on a tortise installation that I use.

Rick Strahl has a pretty good article on how to setup and run VisualSVN.

Hope this works for you.

Answer 3

It's possible TSVN isn't happy with a bad SSL certificate, so you'll need to make it good (I assume it's self-signed, so you'll need to manually add the cert into the correct certificate store in Windows).

Before you go ahead and do this, what happens if you point TSVN to a non-secure version (i.e., http://) of the site? Is it happy then? If it is then it's definately pointing to SSL problems.

Answer 4

You have to clear your local DNS cache (and if you have a DNS on your LAN, you'll also have to do that with that DNS cache).

Answer 5

Hmm. "Could not resolve hostname" is one layer below SSL, repositories and such. My bet is it's the (personal) firewall not letting Tortoise through.