I\'m aware this question has been asked a lot of times. I believe I understand the answers, but I still had no luck.
I tried both one repo and multipl
one repo
multipl
In case anyone gets here with similar issue, here is my resolution: I had file "/var/svn/format" owned by root, and despite all permissions set (777), apache did not want to read file owned by root. Just a simple chown command fixed the issue.
chown