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

The problem for me was that I had a .htaccess RewriteRule in my document root, asking to add a trailing / to every URL not having one.

Because of that, the SVN clients, trying to call URLs WITHOUT a trailing / such as "https://site/repos/project" got reidrected by apache to "https://site/repos/project/", so the SVN client tries to go to "https://site/repos/project" again, and so on.

SOLUTION: Do not have any rule that add a trailing / that could affect your SVN urls.