What user does SVN use to access files on Debian? (no repository found in ...)

Question

I am setting up SVN on my Debian server, trying to get it to run through svnserve and not through WebDAV/Apache.

As root ...

I set up the base directory:

mkdir /var/svn

I first create the repository (named "base"):

svnadmin create /var/svn/base

I then edit the config file accordingly, allowing only authorised users. Next i edit the password file and add my user.

Locally, then, using my SVN client i try to connect to the repository. The connection succeeds but i then get an error message

No repository found in svn://myhost/base

I tried

chmod -R 0777 /var/svn

But to no avail.

Any help would be great! Thank You!

Answer 1

You didn't mention how you started svnserve here but my guess would be that you're not passing the -r option. svnserve -d -r /var/svn should do the trick. If you don't specify -r then the root is the root / of your system (e.g. svn://myhost/var/svn/base would probably work)