title: Why is Svn trying to access the Format file in my error directory?
body: <p>Currently we have on repository for multiple projects. I am restructuring this so we can have an SVN repository per project.</p>
  
  <p>I've been following <a href="http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/SubversionRepositoryDataTransfer.html" rel="noreferrer">http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/SubversionRepositoryDataTransfer.html</a> with success but have come into a problem.</p>
  
  <p>In the new repository I add my trunk, branches, and tags directory. I them attempt to move the files out of the root directory into the trunk directory. I'm able to successfully add those folders. The problem is when I try to move the files into the trunk directory. Specifically adding a file to the ./trunk level seems to fail the most:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Commit failed (details follow):
  Could not open the requested SVN filesystem
  Could not open the requested SVN filesystem
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Looking at my apache logs I see this in the error file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[Fri Aug 10 18:30:00 2012] [error] [client 173.0.0.1] (20014)Internal error: Can't open file '/var/www/vhosts/site.com/subdomains/repo/error_docs/format': No such file or directory
  [Fri Aug 10 18:30:00 2012] [error] [client 173.0.0.1] Could not fetch resource information.  [500, #0]
  [Fri Aug 10 18:30:00 2012] [error] [client 173.0.0.1] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem  [500, #2]
  [Fri Aug 10 18:30:00 2012] [error] [client 173.0.0.1] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem  [500, #2]
  [Fri Aug 10 18:30:00 2012] [error] [client 173.0.0.1] (20014)Internal error: Can't open file '/var/www/vhosts/site.com/subdomains/repo/error_docs/format': No such file or directory
  [Fri Aug 10 18:30:00 2012] [error] [client 173.0.0.1] Could not fetch resource information.  [500, #0]
  [Fri Aug 10 18:30:00 2012] [error] [client 173.0.0.1] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem  [500, #2]
  [Fri Aug 10 18:30:00 2012] [error] [client 173.0.0.1] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem  [500, #2]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm not sure why it's looking for format in my error_docs directory. That directory exists but it doesn't have anything named format.</p>
  
  <p>The permissions of my repo are the same as a working functional repo. So while it looks like a permissions error I dont' see where my setup fails</p>
  
  <pre><code>drwxr-xr-x 7 apache apache       4096 Aug 10 17:41 repo
  
  drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Aug 10 17:41 conf
  drwxr-xr-x 3 apache apache 4096 Aug 10 17:41 dav
  drwxr-sr-x 6 apache apache 4096 Aug 10 19:05 db
  -r--r--r-- 1 apache apache    2 Aug 10 17:41 format
  drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Aug 10 17:41 hooks
  drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Aug 10 17:41 locks
  -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache  229 Aug 10 17:41 README.txt
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>edit - 08/17, poking more at this issue. The current set up is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/pickles.com/
      /trunk
      /branches
      /tags
      pickles.com/
          /app
          /config
          etc...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm attempting to place the code in trunk with svn mv pickles.com/pickles.com/* pickles.com/trunk. I receive the same error with the following in my apache logs:</p>
  
  <pre><code>==&gt; access_log &lt;==
  120.0.0.1 - travisks [17/Aug/2012:12:40:40 -0400] "PROPFIND /pickles.com/pickles.com HTTP/1.1" 207 919 "-" "SVN/1.6.17 (r1128011) neon/0.28.6"
  120.0.0.1 - travisks [17/Aug/2012:12:40:40 -0400] "PROPFIND /pickles.com/!svn/vcc/default HTTP/1.1" 207 606 "-" "SVN/1.6.17 (r1128011) neon/0.28.6"
  120.0.0.1 - travisks [17/Aug/2012:12:40:40 -0400] "PROPFIND /pickles.com/!svn/bln/22 HTTP/1.1" 207 659 "-" "SVN/1.6.17 (r1128011) neon/0.28.6"
  120.0.0.1 - travisks [17/Aug/2012:12:40:40 -0400] "PROPFIND /pickles.com/pickles.com HTTP/1.1" 207 919 "-" "SVN/1.6.17 (r1128011) neon/0.28.6"
  120.0.0.1 - travisks [17/Aug/2012:12:40:41 -0400] "PROPFIND /pickles.com/!svn/vcc/default HTTP/1.1" 207 672 "-" "SVN/1.6.17 (r1128011) neon/0.28.6"
  120.0.0.1 - travisks [17/Aug/2012:12:40:41 -0400] "PROPFIND /pickles.com/!svn/bc/22/pickles.com HTTP/1.1" 207 930 "-" "SVN/1.6.17 (r1128011) neon/0.28.6"
  120.0.0.1 - travisks [17/Aug/2012:12:40:41 -0400] "PROPFIND /pickles.com/trunk/pickles.com HTTP/1.1" 500 430 "-" "SVN/1.6.17 (r1128011) neon/0.28.6"
  
  ==&gt; error_log &lt;==
  [Fri Aug 17 12:40:41 2012] [error] [client 120.0.0.1] (20014)Internal error: Can't open file '/var/www/vhosts/publicsite.com/subdomains/svn/error_docs/format': No such file or directory
  [Fri Aug 17 12:40:41 2012] [error] [client 120.0.0.1] Could not fetch resource information.  [500, #0]
  [Fri Aug 17 12:40:41 2012] [error] [client 120.0.0.1] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem  [500, #2]
  [Fri Aug 17 12:40:41 2012] [error] [client 120.0.0.1] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem  [500, #2]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My svn configuration:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;location /&gt;
    DAV svn
    SVNParentPath /var/www/vhosts/publicsite.com/subdomains/svn
    SVNListParentPath on
  
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "svn.publicsite.com"
    AuthUserFile /var/www/vhosts/publicsite.com/subdomains/svn/conf/passwd
  
    Require valid-user
  &lt;/location&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This same configuration works in another virtual host on the same server. So I wouldn't expect to be the problem. The only change is that ParentPath is on, and this is a directory of repositories instead of a single repository with many directories.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit - Apache is redirecting SVN to the error_docs directory</strong></p>
  
  <p>I updated the conf to act as a single repository.</p>
  
  <p>The original:</p>
  
  <pre><code>SVNParentPath /var/www/vhosts/publicsite.com/subdomains/svn2
  SVNListParentPath on
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>To single format:</p>
  
  <pre><code>SVNPath /var/www/vhosts/publicsite.com/subdomains/svn2/pickles.com
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And everything functioned as expected. Turning it back to SVNParentPath and we're back to the same old problems. Now I know it has something to do with MediaTemple, Plesk, and subdomain setup.</p>
  
  <p>To recap, the error I'm getting is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Internal error: Can't open file '/var/www/vhosts/publicsite.com/subdomains/svn2/error_docs/format
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I created a symlink in error_docs to ./subdomains/svn2/pickes.com/format and then the error became:</p>
  
  <p>Internal error: Error opening db lockfile</p>
  
  <p>This isn't a permissions error (at the level I've shown). This project has the same permission set and user as the one that worked on single-mode. Somewhere Apache is defaulting to the error_docs so SVN is looking for it's directories there instead of the url specified repository.</p>
  
  <p>I've checked every httpd file I've found and can't find a reference to how the domain should handle it's subdomains. </p>