SVN : 500 internal server error on my repository access

Question

(OS is Ubuntu Server)

I create a new repository with SVN like that :

$ svnadmin create myrepo --pre-1.6-compatible

The first time, when

Answer 1

ERROR:

svn: Server sent unexpected return value (500 Internal Server Error) in response to OPTIONS request for

CAUSE: The user's file (or some other file in the project SVN directory), was created using the root account and it has to be owned by the domain account.

Example: domain user is trespatitos (using CPANEL/WHM and Centos 5), so I used:

root@myserver [my project path]# chown -R trespatitos:trespatitos ./* 

That changes the owner and group recursively on the dir I'm standing at.

Also. On the svn.conf file, I have:

AuthUserFile /home/myusername/svn/hds/conf/.svn-users 

While in the SVN folder I made a mistake and name the file: .users-svn

I changed the name and the problem was solved.

Conclusion:

• Check Ownership
• Check Permissions 775 or 777 of the SVN dir.
• Check that the users file actually exists. If it doesn't, use htpasswd -c username .svn-users