My server IP + all subdirectories are pointing to Subversion (SVN) - apache

Question

I installed a subversion on my server and it's working properly. All my repositories are located at /var/svn/repo1 /var/svn/repo2 etc... My /etc/apache2/sites-available/svn looks this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName svn.myhostname.com
DocumentRoot /var/svn
<Directory /var/svn/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
<Location />
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /var/svn
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion"
AuthUserFile /etc/subversion/svn-auth
Require valid-user
</Location>
LogLevel warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/svn.error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/svn.access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
The problem is that when I open a browser and type my IP address or hostname they both point to SVN for some reason. For example, when I type only my IP the browser says "A username and password are being requested by MYIPADDRESS. The site says: "Subversion"". I think the only address that should be pointed to SVN would be svn.myipaddress.com, right??
When I type svn.myipaddress/repo1 it shows the repository normally though.
This causes me hard times as I cannot access my IP and open html/php-files there because it asks for SVN password every time.
Any thoughts on this?

Answer 1

Your initial <VirtualHost *:80> is redirecting all requests on port 80 (the standard http port) to the subversion directories. If you change that to something like <VirtualHost *:3690> then standard web requests should work as normal, though you'll need to add the port when accessing the repositories from the client, i.e. svn co http://repository.url:3690/repo1 in order for subversion commands to work.