Subversion Installation
This articles is a guild for installing Subversion (a.k.a SVN) in CentOS5.
Requirement
- apache server 2.x
Install
Install Subversion and mod_dav_svn
Install Subversion server and WEBDev module of Apache - mod_dav_svn
yum install subversion mod_dav_svn
mod_dav_svn is a module of Apache server, we need it for accessing svn via http(s) protocol.
Create Repository
Using following command to create a repository home dictionary.
In this case, we create repository under ”/opt/svn” folder.
svnadmin create /opt/svn/repos
Modify Apache Configuration
Add a location section into Apache config file, it makes web server accessing /opt/svn/repos directory as public folder.
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
#appending flowing section
<Location /svn/repos>
DAV svn
SVNPath /opt/svn/repos
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion repository"
AuthUserFile /opt/svn/password
Require valid-user
</Location>
Changing Directory Owner
chown -R apache.apache /opt/svn
Add Users For Accessing SVN
# create a new user in password file under /opt/svn with argument -c
htpasswd -c /opt/svn/password Account1
# appending new users by htpasswd WITHOUT -c argument
htpasswd /opt/svn/password Account2
you can see all user list in password file under /opt/svn/password, if you would like to disable a user, just put ‘#’ in front of it.
<code note> if you got permission denied when committing, you may check the SELinux config,disabled it when you are still encoutting the permission problem. </note>
Verify
open this url in web browser - http://SVN_SERVER_IP/svn/repos, it will ask you an account and password.