SVN problems over the web

The other day I was configuring my SVN over Apache for my Lab server. I had almost set it up and it was almost looking perfect when it failed to commit. So everytime i tried to commit it would give me this strange looking error.

svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Server sent unexpected return value (500 Internal Server Error) in response to MKACTIVITY request for '/repos/testrep/!svn/act/b5cf039a-95ed-11df-a9f1-a38cb1af4ec0'

I am running SLES 11 and my web server runs on a virtual host and this was my subversion.conf file [relevant section] located at /etc/apache2/conf.d/subversion.conf :



DAV svn
SVNParentPath /srv/svn/repos/
SVNListParentPath On

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Commiting to repository requires a password"
AuthUserFile /srv/svn/user_access/svn_passwdfile
Require valid-user



So after a lot of trial and error and in an attempt not to make a fool of myself before the professor, I tried changing the line in my subversion.conf to this:



The old error was gone, but a new error showed up

So my final modified line ended up looking like this.



And then it worked like cream.

How I came up with the idea? It was after I read stuff from here