I'm trying to follow http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/HowTo_Automate_repository_creation 
on a Debian jessie VM.

RAILS_ENV=production bin/about

sh: 1: darcs: not found
sh: 1: hg: not found
sh: 1: cvs: not found
sh: 1: bzr: not found
sh: 1: git: not found
Environment:
  Redmine version                3.0.3.stable
  Ruby version                   2.1.5-p273 (2014-11-13) [x86_64-linux-gnu]
  Rails version                  4.2.1
  Environment                    production
  Database adapter               Mysql2
SCM:
  Subversion                     1.8.10
  Filesystem
Redmine plugins:
  no plugin installed

Although the repository resides on the same server as Redmine I would like to setup the svn:// option as opposed to file:/// 

Issuing as a normal user

ruby reposman.rb --redmine redmine.my.domain --svn-dir /var/www/virtual.host.name/svn --owner www-data --url http://virtual.host.name/svn/ --key=7kjhe0TxmfTMn936GDm7
Unable to connect to http://redmine.my.domain/sys/: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known

Where redmine.my.domain is my fully qualified hostname
and virtual.host.name is my named virtual host in apaches sites-enabled
and the key is the API key I have generated in administration:settings:repositories

As this doesn't give the response of 
querying Redmine for projects...
retrieved 2 projects
treating project myproject
svnadmin: Repository creation failed

as per the instructions

It actually gives 
querying Redmine for projects...
No project found, perhaps you forgot to "Enable WS for repository management"

However I have Enabled WS for repository management and there is one test project in the system.

I assume I have set something up wrong.
Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

Listing of apache2 mods enabled

redmine@psredmine:/etc/apache2/mods-enabled$ ls
access_compat.load  authn_file.load  autoindex.conf  dav_svn.conf  dir.load      mime.load         passenger.conf  setenvif.load       status.load
alias.conf          authz_core.load  autoindex.load  dav_svn.load  env.load      mpm_event.conf    passenger.load  socache_shmcb.load
alias.load          authz_host.load  dav_fs.conf     deflate.conf  filter.load   mpm_event.load    perl.load       ssl.conf
auth_basic.load     authz_svn.load   dav_fs.load     deflate.load  headers.load  negotiation.conf  rewrite.load    ssl.load
authn_core.load     authz_user.load  dav.load        dir.conf      mime.conf     negotiation.load  setenvif.conf   status.conf

redmine@psredmine:/etc/apache2/mods-enabled$ cat passenger.conf
<IfModule mod_passenger.c>
  PassengerUser www-data
  PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/phusion_passenger/locations.ini
  PassengerDefaultRuby /usr/bin/ruby
</IfModule>

redmine@psredmine:/etc/apache2/conf-enabled$ ls
charset.conf  javascript-common.conf  localized-error-pages.conf  other-vhosts-access-log.conf  security.conf  serve-cgi-bin.conf  svn.conf
redmine@psredmine:/etc/apache2/conf-enabled$ cat svn.conf
# /svn location for users
PerlLoadModule Apache::Redmine
<Location /svn>
    DAV svn
    SVNParentPath "/var/svn"
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Satisfy any

    PerlAccessHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::access_handler
    PerlAuthenHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::authen_handler
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Projectwerk Subversion Repository"

    #read-only access
    <Limit GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
        Require valid-user
        # Allow from [my server ip]
        Allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
        Allow from 127.0.0.1
        # Allow from another-ip
        Satisfy any
    </Limit>
    # write access
    <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
        Require valid-user
    </LimitExcept>
    ErrorDocument 404 default

## for mysql
    RedmineDSN "DBI:mysql:database=redmine;host=localhost"
    RedmineDbUser "User"
    RedmineDbPass "XXXXXXXXXX"
</Location>

redmine@psredmine:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled$ ls
master.conf  redmine.my.domain.conf
redmine@psredmine:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled$ cat redmine.my.domain.conf
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName redmine.my.domain
   Redirect permanent / https://redmine.my.domain/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerAdmin greg@my.domain
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html/redmine
        ServerName redmine.my.domain

        SSLEngine On

        SSLCertificateFile    /etc/apache2/ssl/redmine.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/redmine.key
        SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/apache2/ssl/redmine.crt

        <Directory /var/www/html/redmine>
                RailsBaseURI /
                PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot on
                # http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/misc/perf-tuning.html
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>



Regards
Greg