Subversion E160013: '/svn/xxx/!svn/me' path not found* error

Question

I recently upgraded the bitnami trac stack (from 0.12.2-5 to 0.12.3) on our server and after reconfiguring all the scripts and repositories all seemed well. I was able to lo

Answer 1

This was a problem on https://trac-hacks.org, which serves Trac at / and Subversion at /svn. The issue was initially worked around by disabling SVNAdvertiseV2Protocol. Later the issue was resolved by serving Trac from /trac and redirecting / to /trac. However, that solution was not ideal due to the redirect. Another admin on the project found the solution of adding:

Alias   /svn            /var/www/000-default/svn

I'm not sure why this works, but it effective and doesn't require the redirect and serving Trac from /trac.