Creating a subversion server in B3 Server

In order to keep a version control of my home projects, I decided to set up a subversion server in my B3 Server.

I will be using subversion an Apache.


B3 Server Installation

• Become root

$ su

• Install subversion and support for Apache

# apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn

• Create a base directory for your subversion projects

# mkdir /var/svn

• Give permissions for Apache

# chown -R www-data:www-data /var/svn

• Configure Apache svn module

# vi /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf

• Here's my dav_svn.conf. Be sure to alter SVNParentPath to your subversion projects base directory.

<Location /svn>

  # Uncomment this to enable the repository

  DAV svn

  SVNParentPath /var/svn

  SVNListParentPath on

  AuthType Basic

  AuthName "Subversion Repository"

  AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd

  # The following three lines allow anonymous read, but make

  # committers authenticate themselves.  It requires the 'authz_user'

  # module (enable it with 'a2enmod').

  #<LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>

    Require valid-user

    SSLRequireSSL

  #</LimitExcept>

</Location>

• Restart Apache

# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

• Create users for subversion

# htpasswd -cm /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd yourusername

•  Create your projects with the right permissions

# svnadmin create /var/svn/yourproject
# chown -R www-data:www-data /var/svn/yourproject

• To remove projects

# cd /var/svn
# rm yourproject -R

Client Installation

• Install subversion

$ sudo apt-get install subversion

• Connect and sync your projects. This will create a new directory yourproject in your home folder.

$ svn co https://b3server/svn/yourproject

• Optionally you can install a graphical tool like rabbitvcs, with nautilus integration

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rabbitvcs/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install rabbitvcs-nautilus3
$ killall nautilus

You can check out the excito wiki for further details.