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Install WebSVN for Subversion on centos

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• • Blame (annotation) view of file authorship

  • Comparing revisions of files / directories

  • Revision and log message browsing / searching

  • RSS feed support for watching any resource

In order to enable other features such as path-based restriction of privileges, proper customization of config.php code is needed. At the time of this article wrote, the current release of WebSVN is WebSVN Release 2.3.2.

Prerequisite :

1. How to Install Apache Httpd Web Server on Linux

2. How to Install Subversion on CentOS 5.5 Server

Steps to install WebSVN :

1. Download the WebSVN Release 2.3.2

You can wget as below. Make sure that you put it or move it to your repository directory.

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[root@server repos]# pwd

/svn/repos

[root@server repos]# http://websvn.tigris.org/files/documents/1380/48737/websvn-2.3.2.tar.gz

-bash: http://websvn.tigris.org/files/documents/1380/48737/websvn-2.3.2.tar.gz: No such file or directory

[root@server repos]# clear

[root@server repos]# pwd

/svn/repos

[root@server repos]# wget http://websvn.tigris.org/files/documents/1380/48737/websvn-2.3.2.tar.gz

--2011-04-03 17:53:20--  http://websvn.tigris.org/files/documents/1380/48737/websvn-2.3.2.tar.gz

Resolving websvn.tigris.org... 204.16.104.146

Connecting to websvn.tigris.org|204.16.104.146|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 846511 (827K) [application/x-gzip]

Saving to: `websvn-2.3.2.tar.gz'

100%[===========================================>] 846,511     72.9K/s   in 31s

2011-04-03 17:53:53 (26.5 KB/s) - `websvn-2.3.2.tar.gz' saved [846511/846511]

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2. Extract and unzip the websvn-2.3.2.tar.gz using below command and rename it as websvn for easy browsing URL as below:

http://servername/websvn/

• 1. [root@server repos]# tar xvfz websvn-2.3.2.tar.gz [root@server repos]# mv websvn-2.3.2 websvn

3. Go to websvn/include directory. Make a copy of distconfig.php and name it as config.php. config.php will be the main configuration file of your WebSVN.

• 1. [root@server repos]# cd websvn/include [root@server include]# ls accessfile.php  command.php      diff_util.php   setup.php     utils.php auth.php        configclass.php  distconfig.php  svnlook.php   version.php bugtraq.php     diff_inc.php     header          template.php [root@server include]# cp distconfig.php config.php

4. Edit the config.php file. Then uncomment line 106 and modify the parentPath as below:

• 1. [root@server include]# vi config.php 106 // $config->parentPath('Path/to/parent (e.g. c:\\svn)');

Change to :

• 1. 106 $config->parentPath('/svn/repos');

5. Save the config.php then test your http://servername/websvn. If everything properly configured, you should see the page that lists your repositories.

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Install Subversion 1.6.16 on CentOS 5.5 Server

Subversion is a open source version control system that will manages files and will keep the changes made to the files, over time. This will allows us to recover older versions of the data or examine the history of how the data changed. In this post, i will show you on how to install Subversion 1.6.16 on CentOS 5.5.

1. Download Subversion 1.6.16

• 1. [root@server data]# wget http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/5/RPMS/i386/mod_dav_svn-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm --2011-03-29 20:20:22--  http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/5/RPMS/i386/mod_dav_svn-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm Resolving opensource.wandisco.com... 212.7.198.163 Connecting to opensource.wandisco.com|212.7.198.163|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 77152 (75K) [application/x-redhat-package-manager] Saving to: `mod_dav_svn-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm'  100%[===========================================>] 77,152      47.1K/s   in 1.6s  2011-03-29 20:20:25 (47.1 KB/s) - `mod_dav_svn-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm' saved [77152/77152]  [root@server data]# wget http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/5/RPMS/i386/subversion-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm --2011-03-29 20:22:31--  http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/5/RPMS/i386/subversion-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm Resolving opensource.wandisco.com... 212.7.198.163 Connecting to opensource.wandisco.com|212.7.198.163|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 2191952 (2.1M) [application/x-redhat-package-manager] Saving to: `subversion-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm'  100%[===========================================>] 2,191,952   53.4K/s   in 51s  2011-03-29 20:23:25 (41.9 KB/s) - `subversion-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm' saved [2191952/2191952]  [root@server data]# wget http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/5/RPMS/i386/subversion-devel-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm --2011-03-29 20:26:47--  http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/5/RPMS/i386/subversion-devel-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm Resolving opensource.wandisco.com... 212.7.198.163 Connecting to opensource.wandisco.com|212.7.198.163|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 3407709 (3.2M) [application/x-redhat-package-manager] Saving to: `subversion-devel-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm'  100%[===========================================>] 3,407,709   53.6K/s   in 62s  2011-03-29 20:27:51 (53.9 KB/s) - `subversion-devel-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm' saved [3407709/3407709]  [root@server data]# wget http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/5/RPMS/i386/subversion-perl-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm --2011-03-29 20:28:05--  http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/5/RPMS/i386/subversion-perl-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm Resolving opensource.wandisco.com... 212.7.198.163 Connecting to opensource.wandisco.com|212.7.198.163|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1103833 (1.1M) [application/x-redhat-package-manager] Saving to: `subversion-perl-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm'  100%[===========================================>] 1,103,833   66.8K/s   in 21s  2011-03-29 20:28:28 (52.3 KB/s) - `subversion-perl-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm' saved [1103833/1103833]  [root@server data]# wget http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/5/RPMS/i386/subversion-python-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm --2011-03-29 20:28:36--  http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/5/RPMS/i386/subversion-python-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm Resolving opensource.wandisco.com... 212.7.198.163 Connecting to opensource.wandisco.com|212.7.198.163|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1286789 (1.2M) [application/x-redhat-package-manager] Saving to: `subversion-python-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm'  100%[===========================================>] 1,286,789   30.2K/s   in 42s  2011-03-29 20:29:20 (30.1 KB/s) - `subversion-python-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm' saved [1286789/1286789]  [root@server data]# wget http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/5/RPMS/i386/subversion-tools-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm --2011-03-29 20:30:09--  http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/5/RPMS/i386/subversion-tools-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm Resolving opensource.wandisco.com... 212.7.198.163 Connecting to opensource.wandisco.com|212.7.198.163|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 390211 (381K) [application/x-redhat-package-manager] Saving to: `subversion-tools-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm'  100%[===========================================>] 390,211     54.9K/s   in 7.2s  2011-03-29 20:30:19 (53.1 KB/s) - `subversion-tools-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm' saved [390211/390211]  [root@server data]# ls mod_dav_svn-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm       subversion-perl-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm subversion-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm        subversion-python-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm subversion-devel-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm  subversion-tools-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm

2. Install the RPM packages

1. [root@server data]# rpm -Uvh --nosignature mod_dav_svn-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm subversion-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm subversion-devel-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm subversion-perl-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm subversion-python-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm subversion-tools-1.6.16-1.i386.rpm

   1. Preparing...                ########################################### [100%] 1:subversion             ########################################### [ 17%] 2:subversion-perl        ########################################### [ 33%] 3:mod_dav_svn            ########################################### [ 50%] 4:subversion-devel       ########################################### [ 67%] 5:subversion-python      ########################################### [ 83%] 6:subversion-tools       ########################################### [100%] [root@server data]#

3. Setting up directories

• 1. mkdir /svn mkdir /svn/repos mkdir /svn/users mkdir /svn/permissions  chown -R apache:apache /svn

4. Configure httpd Apache server as below:

• 1. DocumentRoot /svn/repos ServerName svn.local ErrorLog logs/svn.local-error_log CustomLog logs/svn.local-access_log common

5. Create and Configure subversion.conf

[root@server ~]# vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf

• 1.  # Needed to do Subversion Apache server. LoadModule dav_svn_module     modules/mod_dav_svn.so  # Only needed if you decide to do "per-directory" access control. LoadModule authz_svn_module   modules/mod_authz_svn.so  # # Example location directive. #  <Location /svn/repos>         DAV svn         SVNParentPath /svn/repos         AuthType Basic AuthName "Authorization Realm" AuthUserFile /svn/users/passwords         AuthzSVNAccessFile /svn/permissions/svnaccess         Require valid-user </Location> 

6. Create first repository using svnadmin command

• 1. [root@server ~]# svnadmin create /svn/repos/testsvn [root@server ~]# chown -R apache:apache /svn/repos/testsvn

7. Create htpasswd user to access the testsvn repository

• 1. [root@server ~]# htpasswd -c /svn/users/passwords user1 New password: Re-type new password: Adding password for user user1  [root@server ~]# htpasswd -m /svn/users/passwords user2 New password: Re-type new password: Adding password for user user2

8. Create svnaccess file to access the testsvn repository

• 1. [root@server ~]# vi /svn/permissions/svnaccess

  2. [groups] testgroup = user1, user2  [testsvn:/] @testgroup = rw

9. Test your subversion server from browser http://192.168.2.5/svn/repos/testsvn/

• 1. testsvn - Revision 0: /  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Powered by Subversion version 1.6.16 (r1073529).

Proceed to below URL if you want to view your repository using WebSVN or Viewvc.

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