Could not open the requested SVN filesystem

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When i go to http://localhost/repo/myproject/ and enter password this information is displayed:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<D:error xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:m="http://apache.org/dav/xmlns" xmlns:C="svn:">
<C:error/>
<m:human-readable errcode="2">Could not open the requested SVN filesystem</m:human-readable>
</D:error>

This is my httpd-svn.conf:

<Location /repo>
      DAV svn
      SVNPath “/usr/local/repo”
  AuthType Basic

  AuthName "Subversion repository"

  AuthUserFile /etc/users

  Require valid-user

</Location>

$ ls -la
drwxr-xr-x   3 _www  wheel  102 Aug 11 22:22 repo

How can i solve this?

Have you created an SVN repository at that location with `svnadmin create`, and verified that the Apache user can read from it (ie, verify that it's running as _www)? — Shane Madden, Aug 11 '11 at 21:47
Yes it should be correct. Apache should run over www and dir is www. when you type ls -la it's just shown as _www. I get the same error when I go to http://localhost/repo/ — Mikael, Aug 11 '11 at 22:00
What's your `DocumentRoot` set to? Also, verify that the permissions for the `www` user have been applied to the items within `repo`. Also - make sure there's no validity issues with the repo; `svnlook info /usr/local/repo`. — Shane Madden, Aug 11 '11 at 22:05
"$ svnlook info /usr/local/repo/myproject/ 2011-08-11 22:22:25 +0200 (Thu, 11 Aug 2011)" Yes everything has permisson www. What's your DocumentRoot set? - Don't know how do I check? — Mikael, Aug 11 '11 at 22:15
Somewhere in the Apache config - if the `httpd-svn.conf` file defines a `VirtualHost`, it should be there, otherwise check in the main `httpd.conf`. — Shane Madden, Aug 11 '11 at 22:18
if I try svn list https://192.168.1.2/repo/myproject i get the following: Username: admin Password for 'admin': svn: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem — Mikael, Aug 11 '11 at 22:18
@ShaneMadden let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1059/discussion-between-mikael-and-shane-madden) — Mikael, Aug 11 '11 at 22:28

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 16 '12 at 23:25

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Through troubleshooting in chat, we found these error logs:

[Fri Aug 12 00:56:10 2011] [error] [client 192.168.1.2] (20014)Internal error: Can't open file '\xe2\x80\x9c/usr/local/repo\xe2\x80\x9d/format': No such file or directory

Which led us to the quotes in the config being those sneaky, pretty “” quotes, instead of config-friendly "" quotes. That did the trick!

edited Feb 16 '12 at 23:25

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answered Aug 11 '11 at 23:18

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 23 '13 at 15:19

I had the same problem but in my case it was a file permission issue with my hook/post-commit scripts. So I changed the owner of the file and the problem was solved.

Just posting because I came to this post while trying to search for my answer since I received the exact same error message for a whole different problem and it may be useful for someone else.

Could not open the requested SVN filesystem

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