Subversion/svn Propfind 405 error after Ubuntu upgrade

Question

I've upgraded the Ubuntu server hosting my Subversion repository and now can't access svn.

http://hostname/svn 

is giving me no response and Subclipse says :

Propfind 405 method not allowed.

Answer 1

The issue was that during the upgrade process I had opted to overwrite dav_svn.conf in /etc/apache2/mods-available/ with a new version - effectively de-configuring Subversion in apache.

Fortunately the upgrade process saved a copy of the original as dav_svn.conf.dpkg-old in the same directory, so I was able to use the following to see the differences and restore the configuration:

diff dav_svn.conf  dav_svn.conf.dpkg-old

To finish, reload the Apache config:

sudo service apache2 graceful