Redmine

If it's on the same box, just put file:///absolute/path/to/the/svn/repository in the source field, and leave username and password blank, that should work (provided your user running rails / apache has enough rights on said repository).

apologies might need a bit 'holding-of-the-hand' as im totally new to redmine and ruby/rails...

I have done what you requested by adding file///absolute/path. Now WEbrick provides the following error:

svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///absolute/path/to/the/svn/repository'
svn: Expected FS format '2'; found format '3'
svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///absolute/path/to/the/svn/repository'
svn: Expected FS format '2'; found format '3'
svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///absolute/path/to/the/svn/repository'
svn: Expected FS format '2'; found format '3'

I know the repos are there and I know they work as they have been there for ages. Any ideas what next?

I'll go out on a limb here, but just to make sure: you took the real path, not actually /absolute/path and so on, right?

Anyway, that looks like a genuine svn error, and I suppose that there is a version mismatch between the repository and the svn client installed on the server, say is the repository in a 1.5 or 1.6 format, and svn --version on the server says it's 1.4.something?

Yea, i am replacing with the real path. Thanks for checking though ;)

when i enter 'svn --version' i get version 1.4.2

Ok, from what I garnered from the little googling I did, you will need at least a 1.5 client to access the repository, so you'll have to install at least a 1.5 svn client on the server.

hm, great stuff, now I just need to figure out how to upgrade my svn client :D

Alright, I Have managed to upgrade SVN to 1.6! And now its all showing in the repository tab. Thanks for all the help guys!

You're welcome.