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    <p>Okay, so it turns out the solution to this problem was very basic &ndash; <em>and also very complicated.</em></p> <p><strong>The simple answer:</strong></p> <p>The hostname <code>svn.mywebsite.com</code> does not exist (at least, not as far as my development server is concerned).</p> <p>For anyone else who's getting this problem, I strongly advise approaching the problem from the assumption that for whatever reason, your client simply cannot locate the SVN server.</p> <p>--</p> <p><strong>The complication:</strong></p> <p>Now for me, it turned out to be a little more complex, because as I mentioned before, it WAS working -- and then it stopped.</p> <p>The reason for this, in case you are interested, is that our SVN server lives on a web server along with our main application (located at <code>http://www.mywebsite.com</code>), which happens to be <em>mirrored on another server,</em> and the DNS records for <code>mywebsite.com</code> are being distributed on an A-B pattern between the two servers. Since the SVN client on my development server couldn't find <code>svn.mywebsite.com</code>, it was looking for simply <code>mywebsite.com</code>. Once it connected to the "A" server, where the virtualhost records exist for the SVN server, Apache took over and served the content appropriate to <code>svn.mywebsite.com</code>.</p> <p>But at some point, my DNS cache was refreshed, and with no application logic available to quietly send the user back to the "A" server, my development server began resolving <code>mywebsite.com</code> to the "B" server -- where SVN hasn't even been installed.</p> <p>Obviously, that's when the SVN client started saying "uh, gee, there ain't no such server." (Who knew thats what OPTIONS blah blah 200 OK meant?)</p> <p><strong>Why I'm an Idiot</strong></p> <p>Here's where the inevitable <code>ID10T</code> error comes into play. The reason I could consistently browse to "http://svn.mywebsite.com/myrepo" in Firefox, was because I had manually created a host entry on my PC pointing to the IP address of the "A" server.</p> <p>If I'd remembered that sooner, I would have saved myself a lot of time &ndash; and a few precious Ibuprofen tablets. :)</p>
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