SVN - SSL handshake failed: SSL error: certificate verify failed

Recently I was configuring a SVN server in a CentOS machine. The access to the repositories was made with Apache (httpd) and mod_DAV over SSL.
Apache SSL config was almost default (yum install mod_ssl), just changing certificate public and private keys, and CAS files.
If you logg in with a browser it worked fine, but with TortoiseSVN you got this error:

svn: E175002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'https://myServer/svn-exp/dart/conf'
svn: E175002: OPTIONS of 'https://myServer/svn-exp/dart/conf': SSL handshake failed: SSL error: certificate verify failed (https://myServer)

Thins I checked:

• Certificate Common Name (CN)  matches URL domain
• URL domain matches the ServerName of virtual host
• The ServerName of virtual host matches de machine´s host name (hostname -f)
• Server public certificate is a trusted certificate in the svn client´s machine
• In  a desperate movement, I even added the certificate to cacerts of JRE

Result: failed

Finally, a partner (by this time I was in a deep hole of  resignation) found a workarround:

• Go to %APPDATA%\Subversion
• Edit servers file.
• Manually, set the value of ssl-authority-files key in order it points de server certificate CA

[global]
# http-proxy-exceptions = *.exception.com, www.internal-site.org
# http-proxy-host = defaultproxy.whatever.com
# http-proxy-port = 7000
# http-proxy-username = defaultusername
# http-proxy-password = defaultpassword
# http-compression = no
# http-auth-types = basic;digest;negotiate
# No http-timeout, so just use the builtin default.
# No neon-debug-mask, so neon debugging is disabled.

ssl-authority-files = /path/to/CAcert.pem;/path/to/CAcert2.pem

#
# Password / passphrase caching parameters:
# store-passwords = no
# store-plaintext-passwords = no
# store-ssl-client-cert-pp = no
# store-ssl-client-cert-pp-plaintext = no