SVN server howto

Step1 : Created a fedora virutal machine clone.

Links :
1) http://sysdigg.blogspot.com/2008/02/install-subversion-on-fedora-8-linux.html
2) http://www.botsko.net/blog/2007/05/17/installing-subversion-on-fedora-core/
3) http://www.ferdychristant.com/blog/articles/DOMM-6NFJ6J
4)http://www.botsko.net/blog/2007/05/17/installing-subversion-on-fedora-core/

         I’ve been using subversion a lot recently – from using repositories with client development companies to installing it for clients – it seems to be the SVN month.

Here’s how I installed subversion on a machine with Fedora Core 4. For anyone learning or using Subversion, I highly recommend that you read the book.

You may already have subversion installed, if not, just run this:

# yum install subversion
# yum install mod_dav_svn

Then you’ll need to setup at least one repository.

# mkdir -p /svn/repos

We need to give these folders the proper permissions

# chown -R apache.apache /svn

Then we need to tell subversion to make our first repository.

# svnadmin create /svn/repos/myproject

########## Leave below configuration just go through apache configuration given below to these steps

First, I need to setup a config file for svnserve.

# vi /svn/repos/conf/svnserve.conf

Then, look for variations of the following code and edit it as necessary. By default any anonymous user can access the code so to disable that you must include anon-access = none, just commenting the value out will not prevent anonymous access.

anon-access = none
password-db = passwdfile
realm = My SVN Repository
auth-access = write

The password-db is just a path to a file containing usernames and passwords. You’ll create this file especially for SVN. I create each file inside of the repository conf directory. So, save your changes and then we’ll create said user file.

# vi passwdfile

Enter in something like:

[users]
username = password

Anyway, you’ll need to start the svn server.

# svnserve -d –listen-port=3690

One side note – svnserve just runs and doesn’t have a way to stop besides killing the process. If you make changes to the svnserve.conf or user file you’ll need to restart svnserve.

# killall svnserve

Then, go ahead and test (best to do so on a different machine).

# svn co –username=myusername svn://mydomain/svn/repos/myproject

The system should then ask you for your password. Go ahead and run some tests.

Now, let’s setup Apache.

Create a new apache include file that will hold our configurations (You may already have this is subversion was already installed).

# vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf

Now, this file will need to contain something like this to serve the repository through apache:

<Directory /home/xyz/svn/repo1>

AllowOverride All

Options MultiViews -Indexes Includes FollowSymlinks

<IfModule mod_access.c>

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</IfModule>

</Directory>

# WebDAV access

<Location /svn/repo1>

DAV svn

SVNPath /home/xyz/svn/repo1

AuthType Basic

AuthName “SVN”

AuthUserFile /home/xyz/htpasswd

Require valid-user

# Allow read-only access to anyone, otherwise require

# authentication

<LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>

Require valid-user

</LimitExcept>

</Location>

Now, this essentially tells apache to load the mods needed for svn. We need to create some files so that this config will work properly. The first is our htpasswd file which I named “/svn/users/svnpass”.

# htpasswd -cb /svn/users/svnpass username password

Next we need to create the svnauth file.

# vi /svn/permissions/svnauthz.conf

Inside we’ll place a list of users who have access to files:

[/]

username = rw

The “rw” states that this user has read/write access to the root repository /.

Restart your web server and you should be done.

service httpd reloador you can use:
/usr/sbin/apachectl restart

 – this option outputs better error messages in case you’ve made some syntax mistakes.

Go to your repository and you should see subversion displaying the repo info.

http://yoursite.com/svn/repos/