SVN works with file:/// , can't access via svn:// svnserve is running

Question

on Ubuntu, I have SVN setup. I have created a repository and imported the files. On the same machine, I can checkout via file://

Works:

svn checkout  file:///svn/siteinabox

Doesn;t work (tried from the same machine):

svn checkout  svn://localhost/siteinabox  
svn: URL 'svn://localhost/siteinabox' doesn't exist

Ultimately my aim is to access the repo from a remote machine. Currently, it gives the same error from remote machine.

Answer 1

Found the answer: I had started svnserve like this:

svnserve -d -r /svn/project

instead it should have been like this

svnserve -d -r /svn