Problem starting Apache service for Subversion

I reconfigured our Subversion install last night, and the Apache service wouldn’t start. The event viewer said

The Apache service named  reported the following error:
>>> SVNParentPath takes one argument, specifies the location in the filesystem whose subdirectories are assumed to be Subversion repositories.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

The problem was I had specified

C:\Production Source\

as our repository, this has a space in it, so in

C:\Program Files\CollabNet Subversion Server\httpd\conf\httpd.conf

I modified

<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath “C:\Production Source\ORS2\Repository”
</Location>

Putting the quotes around the parent path. Silly problem, easy fix.

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Posted Thursday, January 29th, 2009 under Computers, Development.

2 comments

  1. Ben Farrelly says:

    Thanks Russ.

    This post saved me a heap of time!!

  2. Lucas Dicésaro says:

    Muchisimas gracias Russ!
    A diferencia de Ben, yo sí perdi mucho tiempo. Pero este post, me salvo.
    1000 gracias, querido!

    Thank you very much Russ!
    Unlike Ben, I lost a long time in this. But this post saved me, brother. Thanks again!!!!

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