title: SVN can't connect to localhost: target machine actively refused it
body: <p>I installed Tortoisesvn and SVN. I then successfully did the following</p>
  
  <p><code>svnadmin create "c:svnrepository"</code> and 
  edited <code>conf\svnserve.conf</code> by removing the pound character from:</p>
  
  <pre><code>anon-access = none
  auth-access = write
  password-db = passwd
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>added users to <code>conf/passwd</code></p>
  
  <p>typed <code>sc create svnserver ...</code></p>
  
  <p>when I run <code>net start svnserver</code>, but it said <code>system error 87 has occurred. the parameter is incorrect</code></p>
  
  <p>I then typed </p>
  
  <pre><code>set SVN_EDITOR=c:/windows/system32/notepad.exe
  svn mkdir svn://localhost/myproj
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I saw some previous suggestions to this were to go to TortoiseSVN->Settings. But I'm unable to right click on it to get there</p>
  
  <p>I also tried <code>svnserve --daemon --root "path/to/my/repo</code> and <code>svnserve -d -r path/to/my/repo</code>, but they just freeze and do nothing</p>
  
  <p>I also opened the Tortoise Repo Browser, but it gives the same error of Localhost connection being refused</p>
  
  <p>can anyone help with this?</p>