I have installed subversion and LibreSource. Everything works well with LibreSource, except subversion.

I can create repositories from the command prompt and have setup the svnserve as a service.

However, when I attempt to create a subversion repository from LibreSource I get the following error:

Error in createRepository : null Caused by : null

The LibreSource command window has the following errors:

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.io.File.<init>(File.java:222)
        at org.libresource.subversion.ejb.LibresourceSubversionServiceBean.canCreateRepository(LibresourceSubversionServiceBean.java:525)
        at org.libresource.subversion.ejb.LibresourceSubversionServiceBean.createRepository(LibresourceSubversionServiceBean.java:141)
        … 65 more
Mon Sep 29 08:36:21 EST 2008 : root : ERROR : org.libresource.subversion.LibresourceSubversionException

This is how my config looks like: SVN is in the following folder: C:/SVN SVN repositories are in C:/Repositories I have created a folder called ls-svn under repositories: C:/Repositories/ls-svn

There are three folders under ls-svn:

1. conf
2. bin
3. projects

The conf directory contains:

1. svnserve.conf
2. authz
3. passwd

The bin directory contains two files:

1. SVNCreate.bat
2. SVNMove.bat

@echo off
set basepath="C:repositoriesls-svnprojects"
if "%basepath%%1"=="%basepath%" (
	echo Project name not provided!
	exit /B
) else (
	svnadmin create "%basepath%%1"
)

My LibreSource config file C:/LibreSource/JONAS_4_7_6/conf/libresourceConfig.properties has the following settings for Subversion:

# custom web properties
libresource.web.conf=C:/LibreSource/JONAS_4_7_6/work/webapps/jonas/LibreSource-2.5/LibreSource-Web-2.0/WEB-INF/libresource-web.xml

Subversion configuration
subversion.authz.file.path=C:/Repositories/ls-svn/conf/
subversion.repository.base.path=C:/Repositories/ls-svn/projects/
subversion.create.repository.cmd=C:/Repositories/ls-svn/bin/SVNCreate.bat
subversion.rename.repository.cmd=C:/Repositories/ls-svn/bin/SVNMove.bat

I have tried to run it with both

1. subversion.authz.file.path=C:/Repositories/ls-svn/conf/
2. subversion.authz.file.path=C:/Repositories/ls-svn/conf/authz

Having a look at the source code of the function where the error occurs, I can see (canCreateRepository()):

File repositoryDirectory = new File(getSVNRootRepositoryPath());
		return !Arrays.asList(repositoryDirectory.list()).contains(repositoryName);

How can I make sure that getSVNRootRepositoryPath is returning the right value?

Can someone please help shed a light at what I am doing wrong?

Thank you all.