SVN: redirect cycle detected for url [duplicate] - apache

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") but the TortoiseClient is giving me the error mentioned in the title.
I set up a subversion on my ubuntu server by doing the following (shortened):
mkdir /var/svn
svnadmin create /var/svn/test
and my dav_svn.conf looks the following:
<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /var/svn
SVNListParentPath On
</Location>
I read about sym links possibly causing the problem, so I'll attach my 000-default site as well (it's the standard btw):
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>
I tried like suggested in How do I list all repositories with the SVNParentPath directive on Apache+SVN?
but unfortunately I get another tortoise error then (while I can still see it fine in my browser)
It then gives me "The OPTIONS request returned invalid XML in the response: XML parse error at line 1: no element found"
(and HTTP OPTIONS to that url indeed gives no response body)
Does anyone know what is causing this problem?
Cheers!
Edit: This is the access.log output after trying to reach http://server/svn through tortoise
(with Location /svn)
Notice the 301 .. TortoiseSVN changes the path to 'http://server/svn' without a leading slash, tho I specified to search within 'http://server/svn / '
[10/May/2012:00:42:29 +0200] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 301 573 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:42:29 +0200] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 301 573 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:42:29 +0200] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 301 573 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:42:29 +0200] "PROPFIND /svn HTTP/1.1" 301 516 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:42:29 +0200] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 301 573 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:42:29 +0200] "PROPFIND /svn HTTP/1.1" 301 516 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:42:30 +0200] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 301 573 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:42:30 +0200] "PROPFIND /svn HTTP/1.1" 301 516 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:42:30 +0200] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 301 573 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:42:30 +0200] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 301 573 "-" "SVN/1.7.4 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:42:30 +0200] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 301 573 "-" "SVN/1.7.4 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:42:30 +0200] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 301 573 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:42:30 +0200] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 301 573 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:42:30 +0200] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 301 573 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:42:30 +0200] "OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1" 200 236 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
(with Location /svn/)
[10/May/2012:00:36:57 +0200] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 200 236 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:36:57 +0200] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 200 236 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:36:57 +0200] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 200 236 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:36:57 +0200] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 200 236 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:36:58 +0200] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 200 236 "-" "SVN/1.7.4 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:36:58 +0200] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 200 236 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:36:58 +0200] "OPTIONS /svn HTTP/1.1" 200 236 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"
[10/May/2012:00:36:58 +0200] "OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1" 200 236 "-" "SVN/1.7.4/TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632 neon/0.29.6"

Answer 1

I konw this is an old thread, however for the beneift of others that find it:
Just a guess, but does the url your browser give you have "viewvc" or some other part that is added in by the svn browser?
i.e. http://mysvn/viewvc/trunk/.....
Tortoise won't check that out since it's not an actual svn url; your svn url is probably something like
http://mysvnsvr/mysvn/trunk.....

Answer 2

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

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

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 7

Adding the:
SVNListParentPath on
line alone solved this issue for me.

Answer 8

I had the same problem but not for multiple repositories just tags,branches,etc within a repository. Removing the Alias tag in the conf file fixed this. I am running Centos 7 with SVN 1.8 and Tortoise 1.9.