Re: [viewvc-users] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem

On 07/19/2012 03:47 AM, Lee Cartwright wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to set up viewvc on an Ubuntu 12.04 box. I believe I 
> have set everything up correctly but keep getting the error "Could not 
> open the requested SVN filesystem" when I browse to /viewvc/viewvc.cgi 
> for that machine. The Apache error logs show:
> 
> [Thu Jul 19 08:42:14 2012] [error] [client 192.168.6.44] (20014)Internal 
> error: Can't open file '/usr/development/svn/viewvc.cgi/format': No such 
> file or directory
> [Thu Jul 19 08:42:14 2012] [error] [client 192.168.6.44] Could not fetch 
> resource information.  [500, #0]
> [Thu Jul 19 08:42:14 2012] [error] [client 192.168.6.44] Could not open 
> the requested SVN filesystem  [500, #2]
> [Thu Jul 19 08:42:14 2012] [error] [client 192.168.6.44] Could not open 
> the requested SVN filesystem  [500, #2]
> 
> /usr/development/svn is the root_parents in my viewvc.conf file. What I 
> don't understand is why it is even trying to open the listed file. It 
> seems to be treating my root directory as if it were an SVN repository. 
> This is obviously a configuration error on my part but I can't figure 
> out what I've done wrong. Does anyone have any advice?

You've correctly identified the problem based on the symptoms.  Now, we need
to find the source of that problem.  Generally, this problem occurs when
folks use some of the *Subversion* Apache module's directives in the Apache
configuration blocks intended for *ViewVC*.  For example, do you have "DAV
svn" or "SVNParentPath /foo/bar" or "SVNPath /boo/far" in your ViewVC
<Location> block?  ViewVC doesn't need any of those things.

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
CollabNet   <>   www.collab.net   <>   Enterprise Cloud Development

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