F5 Load Balancer and Subversion
Hi Community: Before mentioning the issue, I don't manage any settings on Load Balancer, I just want to understand about reasons of the issue. Thanks My team had migrated/upgraded subversion server into a different location. In comparison with the previous, that server is now running behind of F5 Load Balancer. Based on the setting before mentioned, users access and perform their svn activities using the https via LB. Then the LB will offload the svn traffic and communicates with the svn target server with under the regular http protocol. However, there is a series of issues that we are catching up under https. For example: TSVN 1.7+ and 1.8+ users get the following error while checking out their codes: "An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host". In order to discern that the error (1) was caused by either the server or the LB, I upgraded to the latest version of TSVN (1.8.5). I was checking out the code but after long time of checkouts, I get the Connection timed out error. Which tells me about the LB issue (I don't know which error). Subclipse (with JavaHL adapter) clients have issue with checking out by mentioning as follows: !MESSAGE org.apache.subversion.javahl.ClientException: RA layer request failed svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'https://LB-URL/svn/repo/trunk/darly' svn: OPTIONS of 'https://LB-URL/svn/repo/trunk/darly': could not connect to server (https://LB-URL) So we ended up mention users to change SVNKit client adapter. Some users, either by renaming code file remotely (using TSVN) or branching/merging (Subclipse) get this type of error org.apache.subversion.javahl.ClientException: RA layer request failed svn: Server sent unexpected return value (502 Bad Gateway) in response to COPY request for '/svn/repo/!svn/rvr/revision/trunk' And this is probably because LB somehow didn't redirect the packet headers from https to http (for COPY activities, for example). Is anyone who went with these settings and solved these type of issues? Any idea is welcome. Regards