Cannot connect to repo with TortoiseSVN

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I ve been running a project for some months now using the same TortoiseSVN repository without much hassle  until now   I need to add another box to the project but it seems to be impossible for TSVN to connect to the repository  This is the stuff I ve discovered or tried out   I have two client boxes  the  old  one and the  new  one      Setting up and checking out a second folder on the  old  box works fine  Browsing to the repo via Chrome IE on the  new  box also works fine  The browsers on my  new  box does not use a proxy  the same goes for the  old  box   I am running TSVN 1 7 4  Build 22459 - 64 Bit on both boxes When I attempt to connect to the repo from the  new  box using repo browser or checking out to a new folder I get this error message    Unable to connect to a repository at URL  https    ip-address omitted  usvn svn  project omitted   OPTIONS of  https    ip-address omitted  usvn svn  project omitted    could not  connect to server  ip-address omitted  I have compared all TSVN settings between the  new  and  old  boxes and they all appear to match According to the people running the server there s no certificates in use The Windows firewall on the  new  box is down I m running both  old  and  new  box from the same network  The  old  is connected via WIFI however whereas the  new  one is on wire    I m at my wits end on what to check so any hints would be greatly appreciated   Thanks

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You need to determine whether this is a problem with TortoiseSVN  your Subversion repository  or your network connection    First of all  check your URL  I never used User-Friendly SVN  so I don t know what it does to the Apache httpd configuration  However  the standard Apache configuration for multiple repositories is usually http    lt server gt  svn  lt module gt  and not http    lt server gt  svn usvn  lt module gt   Is that  usvn  directory suppose to be there    By the way  how was Apache configured  Does User-Friendly SVN do that too  or does it merely allow you to configure the repositories  Are you using Visual-SVN  or did someone manually configure Apache httpd   If the URL is correct  try pinging your Subversion server  Can you ping it from your Windows box  If not  you have a network issue  For some reason that IP address isn t even reachable from your client box  Try opening a browser  and putting the URL of the Subversion repository into the window  This should work  If it does  the issue is probably with TortoiseSVN  Download a command line Subversion client  and see if you can checkout with that  Try using the same URL on another box  Can you checkout from there  If so  it points to a problem with the network

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I ve found that replacing the first part of the URL with IP address numbers instead of words worked for me   For example use   http   111 11 11 111 svn Directory   instead of   http   www url com svn Directory

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I faced similar issue while doing svn update    The approach which worked for me is to rename C  Users user AppData Roaming TortoiseSVN folder to TortoiseSVN bkp folder and then tried svn update again  This time I was able to connect to repository and it got updated

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Try clearing the settings under  Saved Data  - refer to   http   tortoisesvn net docs release TortoiseSVN en tsvn-dug-settings html  This worked for me with Windows 7   Eric

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Run ipconfig  flushdns from a command prompt  Apparently some people seem to think I posted this answer for sheer fun  That s why they down voted my answer  Perhaps an explanation would help them  When I used  SVN Update  it said it can t connect to the SVN repository although I could ping the server  After running ipconfig  flushdns the issue was fixed

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SVN is case-sensitive   Make sure that you re spelling it properly   If it got renamed  you can relocate the working folder to the new URL   See https   tortoisesvn net docs release TortoiseSVN en tsvn-dug-relocate html

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As stated by David W   First of all  check your URL  - Our dns entry changed breaking all svn repo connections   Connecting on ip instead of url as Wes stated worked -  now we have to fix our dns

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I was struggling with exactly the same issue  I got my work laptop replaced and suddenly I stopped being able to connect to server  Strangely  initially I was getting errors only blocking me from committing  like  Command                Commit Error                  Commit failed  details follow   Error                  MKACTIVITY of   svn   svn act c511b853-23b4-db4a-8991-0bc689a63353   Error                   Could not parse response status line  http        com  Completed                When I moved to work in another branch  the SVN server was accessible with no issues for everyone on both branches  who has proper security   I started getting error like   Command                Checkout from http    com svn fineos  trunk  revision HEAD  Fully recursive  Externals included Error                  Unable to connect to a repository at URL Error                    http      com svn fineos    trunk  Error                  OPTIONS of Error                    http     com svn fineos    trunk   could Error                   not connect to server  http     com  Completed                Note  In each case  I could access repository through browser and it was working for everyone else  so obviously it wasn t network or repository issue    This what worked for me was to uninstall Tortoise client  then remove Tortoise cache folder from Local and Roaming folders under C  Users user AppData   Additionally I renamed TortoiseSVN node in Windows registry so the old configuration cannot be found  Then after reinstallation  client connected to repo beautifully  I am not sure if both steps are required  maybe just changing registry will be enough  I will leave that to you to confirm    Apologies for long response  but as I haven t seen response to this problem after googling for longer while  I thought that may be helpful for different cases

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Look into this as well    Issue  After invoking SVN on the command line on a firewalled server  nothing visible happens for 15 seconds  then the program quits with the following error    svn  E170013  Unable to connect to a repository at URL  SVN REPOSITORY REDACTED   svn  E730054  Error running context  An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host   Investigation  Internet research on the above errors did not uncover any pertinent information   Process Tracing  procmon  showed a connection attempt to an Akamai  cloud services  server after the SSL TLS handshake to the SVN Server  The hostname for the server was not shown in Process tracing  Reverse DNS lookup showed a184-51-112-88 deploy static akamaitechnologies com or a184-51-112-80 deploy static akamaitechnologies com as the hostname  and the IP was either 184 51 112 88 or 184 51 112 80  2 entries in DNS cache    Packet capture tool  MMA  showed a connection attempt to the hostname ctldl windowsupdate com after the SSL TLS Handshake to the SVN server   The windows Crypto API was attempting to connect to Windows Update to retrieve Certificate revocation information  CRL     certificate revocation list   The default timeout for CRL retrieval is 15 seconds  The timeout for authentication on the server is 10 seconds  as 15 is greater than 10  this fails    Resolution  Internet research uncovered the following   also see picture at bottom   Solution 1  Decrease CRL timeout Group Policy -  Computer Config - Windows Settings -  Security Settings -  Public Key Policies -  Certificate Path Validation Settings -  Network Retrieval      see picture below   https   subversion open collab net ds viewMessage do dsForumId 4 amp dsMessageId 470698  support microsoft com en-us kb 2625048  blogs technet com b exchange archive 2010 05 14 3409948 aspx  Solution 2  Open firewall for CRL traffic  support microsoft com en-us kb 2677070  Solution 3  SVN command line flags  untested   serverfault com questions 716845 tortoise-svn-initial-connect-timeout -  alternate svn command line flag solution   Additional Information  Debugging this issue was particularly difficult  SVN 1 8 disabled support for the Neon HTTP RA  repository access  library in favor of the Serf library which removed client debug logging   1  In addition  the SVN error code returned did not match the string given in svn error codes h  2  Also  SVN Error codes cannot be mapped back to their ENUM label easily  this case SVN error code E170013 maps to SVN ERR RA CANNOT CREATE SESSION    stackoverflow com questions 8416989 is-it-possible-to-get-svn-client-debug-output people apache org  brane svndocs capi svn  error  codes 8h html ac8784565366c15a28d456c4997963660a044e5248bb3a652768e5eb3105d6f28f code google com archive p serf issues 172   Suggested SVN Changes     Enable Verbosity on the command like for all operations Add error ENUM name to stderr Add config flag for Serf Library debug logging

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Once I faced the same issue  I was trying to take svn checkout using repository URL consisting of DOMAIN NAME   I tried to connect using IP address in place of DOMAIN NAME and I was able to take checkout

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