tortoise svn giving me “Redirect cycle detected for URL 'domain/svn'”

Question

I want to achieve a svn-root in /var/svn and repositories(projects) in there. I could get it to work in the browser (http://domain/url gives me \"Collection of repositories\

Answer 1

On CentOS7, I removed the Alias directive and it works.

Answer 2

The problem for me was that I had a .htaccess RewriteRule in my document root, asking to add a trailing / to every URL not having one.

Because of that, the SVN clients, trying to call URLs WITHOUT a trailing / such as "https://site/repos/project" got reidrected by apache to "https://site/repos/project/", so the SVN client tries to go to "https://site/repos/project" again, and so on.

SOLUTION: Do not have any rule that add a trailing / that could affect your SVN urls.

Answer 3

The TortoiseSVN Repository Browser doesn't seem to support browsing of collection of repositories.

So if you have the repositories:

/var/svn/repo1
/var/svn/repo2
/var/svn/repo3

and the dav_svn.conf

<Location /svn>
  DAV svn
  SVNParentPath /var/svn
  SVNListParentPath on
</Location>

You can browse them with a web browser pointing at http://server/svn.

With TortoiseSVN you must specify also the name of the repository, e.g.

http://server/svn/repo1
http://server/svn/repo2
http://server/svn/repo3

Answer 4

Following @rdconsolo suggestion on Ubuntu 16.04, remove the Alias directive, works for me

#Alias /svn /var/lib/svn
<Location /svn>

DAV svn
SVNParentPath /var/lib/svn
SVNListParentPath On
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion Repository"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
Require valid-user

</Location>

Answer 5

I encountered the problem in a standard configuration and the reason was that I used the same directory as DocumentRoot for the webserver and as SVNPath in the websvn/davsvn config.

For details see also What is the cause of "svn: E195019: Redirect cycle detected for URL"?

Answer 6

Adding the:

SVNListParentPath on

line alone solved this issue for me.