tortoise svn giving me “Redirect cycle detected for URL 'domain/svn'”

Question

I want to achieve a svn-root in /var/svn and repositories(projects) in there. I could get it to work in the browser (http://domain/url gives me \"Collection of repositories\

Answer 1

Following @rdconsolo suggestion on Ubuntu 16.04, remove the Alias directive, works for me

#Alias /svn /var/lib/svn


DAV svn
SVNParentPath /var/lib/svn
SVNListParentPath On
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion Repository"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
Require valid-user