Subversion 1.3.2 on Apache2 “the requested operation has failed”

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 @ 3:37 am | Tips, Subversion, Apache

Finally manage to make it run! Phew! There seems to be a bug in subversion which makes it impossible to load subversion modules even after you copied them to the Apache2’s module folder. I was following the instruction from this page: . It is a little dated but it has simple step-by-step instruction. Just follow the instruction given by that link with the below amendments.

*need to load mod\_dav\_fs.so as well*

LoadModule dav\_fs\_module modules/mod\_dav\_fs.so

*you have to explictly stat the location of this two modules rather than copying them to Apache2 module folder*

LoadModule dav\_svn\_module ../../Subversion/bin/mod\_dav\_svn.so

LoadModule authz\_svn\_module ../../Subversion/bin/mod\_authz\_svn.so

I got this information from

Leave a Reply