SVN configuration

 Subversion HowTo

A simple guide to setting up svn on Slackware...

Subversion and its tools are installed by default in Slackware so;

Firstly, create a folder for the SVN repositories

mkdir -p /home/svn/repositories 

The above example was taken from the source at the bottom on this post, but I will most likely be using /var/svn/repositories

so in the following, substitute /home/svn/ for /var/svn/ if we choose to go this way.

To setup Apache;

Un-comment the following three lines in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

LoadModule dav_module lib64/httpd/modules/mod_dav.so

LoadModule dav_svn_module lib64/httpd/modules/mod_dav_svn.so

LoadModule authz_svn_module lib64/httpd/modules/mod_authz_svn.so

While we're in the httpd.conf file, it's worth navigating to the extra configuration section (this is the section that points to the extra configuration files in /etc/httpd/extra) and adding an entry similar to;

Include /etc/httpd/extra/httpd-svn.conf

I thought the /etc/httpd/extra directory was included by default, obviously not.

Create /etc/httpd/extra/httpd-svn.conf

with the following content;

 <Location /svn>

    DAV svn

    SVNParentPath /home/svn/repositories

    AuthzSVNAccessFile /home/svn/.svn-policy-file

    AuthName "Test SVN Repo"

    AuthType Basic

    AuthUserFile /home/svn/.svn-auth-file

    Satisfy Any

    Require valid-user

 </Location>

To set up simple path based authentication;

Create /home/svn/.svn-policy-file

with the following content;

 [/]

 * = r

 

 [test:/]

 plisken = rw

In the above, the * gives read to all users and plisken has read/write access to a repository called test

We need to create a file .svn-auth-file as follows;

htpasswd -cs /home/svn/.svn-auth-file plisken

The first time we do this, we need to use -c this tells htpasswd to create the file, so going forward, we would remove the -c as follows;

htpasswd -s /home/svn/.svn-auth-file bob

Where bob is another user

Beyond the scope here but we may wish to consider using an alternitive to -s (sha1) such as htdigest [to look into]

To create a repository, do;

svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /home/svn/repositories/test

The --fs-type fsfs (may or may not be needed) and where test is the name of the repository, as used in the /home/svn/.svn-policy-file above.

Give Apache permissions over it;

chown -R apache:apache /home/svn/repositories/test

To test;

we can goto http://<server>/svn/test

Sources

http://www.slackwiki.com/Subversion

https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:network_services:subversion

To backup and restore a repository;

The following is based on;

an existing repository: /home/svn/repositories/test

a new repository: /home/svn/repositories/test2

a backup location: /home/plisken/repo_BAC.bz2

current dir: /home/svn/repositories

Firstly, we can backup as follows;

sudo svnadmin dump -q test | bzip2 -9 > /home/plisken/repo_BAC.bz2

To restore;

We first need to create a folder, in this case test2

sudo svnadmin create test2

Omitting the --fs-type fsfs seems to have little adverse effect.

Anyway, now /home/svn/repositories/test2 exists.

We then cd into /home/svn/repositories and do;

sudo bzip2 -cd /home/plisken/repo_BAC.bz2 | sudo svnadmin load test2

Note the -9 is a compression thing and the -cd does not mean change directory, the c means decompress to stdout and the d means decompress.