Connection Timed out – Apache2/Ubuntu server. Why

You should be using HTTPS for SVN. Don't want to be sending proprietary source code over plaintext.

The problem likely relates to a statement similar to this:

order allow,deny
deny from all

Which restricts access to most files on the web server at the top level of the httpd.conf.

You should add this to the Location node to override this:

order allow,deny
allow from all

Hope that helps... Best, -Henry

127.0.0.1 is the so called loopback address which every host has and which doesn't change. Typically it has the associated hostname localhost. The only exception to this rule is when you have IPv6. Its defined localhost address is ::1, most of the time in addition to the IPv4 address.

You should make sure that the address is actually 127.0.0.1 and not the one you stated. While this works too, it will create some hard to debug issues. Have a look into your /etc/hosts file which configures these mappings. And just as a tip: you should never let actual server-names point to 127.0.0.1, only to external IPs. This makes things easier to run and to debug.

I personally have Redmine/ChiliProject typically setup with a special virtual host bound to localhost which provides the unauthenticated access. Another (probably even faster) alternative would be to not use http:// URLs in Redmine but to use file:// URLs and skip the webserver altogether here.

Having said all that, once you have your name resolution properly setup, you can state names in the Apache configuration. Though requires that the reverse-name resolution actually works, i.e. the system is able to resolve IP addresses back to names. This is the case for entries in '/etc/hosts` and for properly setup DNS servers.

If you do this however, you implicitly trust the DNS system to not lie to you which might not be the case. Generally, inserting IPs is the safer choice. And with a bit of documentation this shouldn't hurt too much. Public server IPs don't change that much :)