Subversion setup

bradhawk · Dec 9, 2007

Okay, so I setup my server using "The Perfect Server - Ubuntu Gusty Gibbon 7.10" tutorial from your site. Now I'm trying to setup subversion.

I ran
Code:
apt-get install subversion
and it didn't bring up any errors. But when reading through the subversion documentation it has me make changes to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf but when I made the changes the server didn't like it. So I was wondering if someone knows how to setup subversion with the configuration that is set in "The Perfect Server" tutorial.

Thanks for any and all help.

falko · Dec 10, 2007

What changes did you make, and what error messages did Apache give you?

bradhawk · Dec 11, 2007

This is the section from the subversion install documentation:
I followed these steps and I don't exactly remember the error messages but it was something to the extent of can't load/find modules.

C. Configuring Apache for Subversion
---------------------------------

The following section is an abbreviated version of the
information in the Subversion Book
(http://svnbook.red-bean.com). Please read chapter 6 for more
details.

The following assumes you have already created a repository.
For documentation on how to do that, see README.

The following also assumes that you have modified
/usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf to reflect your setup.
At a minimum you should look at the User, Group and ServerName
directives. Full details on setting up apache can be found at:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/

First, your httpd.conf needs to load the mod_dav_svn module.
Subversion's 'make install' target should automatically add this
line for you. But if apache gives you an error like "Unknown
DAV provider: svn", then you may want to verify that this line
exists in your httpd.conf:

LoadModule dav_svn_module modules/mod_dav_svn.so

NOTE: if you built mod_dav as a dynamic module as well, make sure
the above line appears after the one that loads mod_dav.so.

Next, add this to the *bottom* of your httpd.conf:

<Location /svn/repos>
DAV svn
SVNPath /absolute/path/to/repository
</Location>

This will give anyone unrestricted access to the repository. If
you want limited access, read or write, you add these lines to
the Location block:

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion repository"
AuthUserFile /my/svn/user/passwd/file

And:

a) For a read/write restricted repository:

Require valid-user

b) For a write restricted repository:

<LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
Require valid-user
</LimitExcept>

c) For separate restricted read and write access:

AuthGroupFile /my/svn/group/file

<LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
Require group svn_committers
</LimitExcept>

<Limit GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
Require group svn_committers
Require group svn_readers
</Limit>

These are only a few simple examples. For a complete tutorial
on Apache access control, please consider taking a look at the
tutorials found under "Security" on the following page:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/tutorials.html

In order for 'svn cp' to work (which is actually implemented as a
DAV COPY command), mod_dav needs to be able to determine the
hostname of the server. A standard way of doing this is to use
Apache's ServerName directive to set the server's hostname. Edit
your /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf to include:

ServerName svn.myserver.org

If you are using virtual hosting through Apache's NameVirtualHost
directive, you may need to use the ServerAlias directive to specify
additional names that your server is known by.

If you have configured mod_deflate to be in the server, you can enable
compression support for your repository by adding the following line
to your Location block:

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

NOTE: If you are unfamiliar with an Apache directive, or not exactly
sure about what it does, don't hesitate to look it up in the
documentation: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/directives.html.

NOTE: Make sure that the user 'nobody' (or whatever UID the
httpd process runs as) has permission to read and write the
Berkeley DB files! This is a very common problem.
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falko · Dec 12, 2007

I need the exact error messages. Can you try to reproduce them?

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