diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-repository-admin/archiva-repository-admin-default/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/admin/repository/AbstractRepositoryAdminTest.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-repository-admin/archiva-repository-admin-default/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/admin/repository/AbstractRepositoryAdminTest.java
index 8045dc324..9218b5b7c 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-repository-admin/archiva-repository-admin-default/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/admin/repository/AbstractRepositoryAdminTest.java
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-repository-admin/archiva-repository-admin-default/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/admin/repository/AbstractRepositoryAdminTest.java
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractRepositoryAdminTest
 {
     protected Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger( getClass() );
 
-    public static final String APPSERVER_BASE_PATH = System.getProperty( "appserver.base" );
+    public static final String APPSERVER_BASE_PATH = AbstractRepositoryAdminTest.fixPath( System.getProperty( "appserver.base" ) );
 
     @Inject
     protected MockAuditListener mockAuditListener;
@@ -73,7 +73,19 @@ public abstract class AbstractRepositoryAdminTest
         AuditInformation auditInformation = new AuditInformation( getFakeUser(), "archiva-localhost" );
         return auditInformation;
     }
-
+    
+   // make a nice repo path to allow unit test to run
+    private static String fixPath ( String path ) 
+    {
+        String SPACE = " ";
+        if ( path.contains( SPACE ) )
+        {
+            LoggerFactory.getLogger( AbstractRepositoryAdminTest.class.getName() ).error( 
+                    "You are building and testing  with {appserver.base}: \n " + path + " containing space. Consider relocating." );
+        }
+        return path.replaceAll( SPACE, "&20");
+    }
+    
     protected User getFakeUser()
     {
         SimpleUser user = new SimpleUser()
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-repository-admin/archiva-repository-admin-default/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/admin/repository/ValidatorTest.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-repository-admin/archiva-repository-admin-default/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/admin/repository/ValidatorTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4027198bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-repository-admin/archiva-repository-admin-default/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/admin/repository/ValidatorTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+package org.apache.archiva.admin.repository;
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+import org.apache.archiva.admin.model.managed.ManagedRepositoryAdmin;
+import org.apache.archiva.test.utils.ArchivaSpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
+import org.apache.commons.validator.GenericValidator;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+
+/**
+ * @author Eric Barboni
+ */
+@RunWith( ArchivaSpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class )
+public  class ValidatorTest
+    extends AbstractRepositoryAdminTest
+{
+    @Test
+    public void testGenericValidator() 
+    {
+        // Be sure M
+        assertFalse("A repo location cannot contains space",GenericValidator.matchRegexp( "/opt/ testme/",
+                     ManagedRepositoryAdmin.REPOSITORY_LOCATION_VALID_EXPRESSION ));
+        
+    }
+}