apache2 - 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") 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.....