MKCOL … 405 Method Not Allowed Subversion error
I use DreamHost to store and manage all my Subversion repositories. When trying to commit a while back, I got this strange error:
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: MKCOL of '.../images': 405 Method Not Allowed
Searching around, I managed to find a couple of reasons this could occur — wrong charset or a connectivity problem (proxy discarding the MKCOL command). I’m not behind a proxy so I tried passing a charset parameter but that didn’t really help.
What finally helped was deleting the problematic “images” directory in the repository and re-commiting the directory. I use TortoiseSVN so it was as simple as using the Repo-Browser, right-clicking on the problematic directory and deleting it. The commit went through just fine after this.
By Mikhail Esteves | March 24th, 2009 in
LAMP, Tips | tags: error, source control, subversion, svn, Tips, tortoisesvn
Hi Mikhail,
Same worked for me. Thanks a lot for posting the suggestion.
Rishi
Thank you for posting this, specifically the solution utilizing TortoiseSVN. This saved me a lot of extra hassle.
Thank you so much! You are a life saver. And the TortoiseSVN way of deleting directories was indeed very convenient.