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Subversion setup is similar in Mandriva 2007, Suse EL 10 and Fedora. It is easier in Mandriva just because of urpmi. If you want to install a package , just type the urpmi packagename. It will get installed and urpmi will resolve all the dependency issues. In my experience, it is much better compared to apt-get ( I have installed apt-get for Suse 10) and yum (Fedora ) is not upto the mark yet when compared to urpmi (It is based on my experience with these distros.. your opinion may vary )

Now let’s go to the installation saga…

Apache installation  

Most probably apache is pre installed in almost all the distros. But Suse Desktop edition is an exception.To install apache

• Login or su as root
• Run:

In Mandriva

urpmi apache

We don’t have to worry about setting up SSL for https in Mandriva as it is pre configured.

• Restart httpd

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

• HTTPS should work.

Try: https://hostname/

In Fedora,

Apache is a standard package. We can select that package and install it from the CD or DVD .. Same in the case of Mandriva
We don’t have to worry about setting up SSL for https in Mandriva as it is pre configured.

• Restart httpd

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

• HTTPS should work.

Try: https://hostname/

In Suse,

Webserver is not pre installed in Suse. We need to install it .

It is not preconfigured for https also. So we need to setup https by editing the configuration files and select the SSL certificate file in that configuration file. 

• Restart httpd

/etc/init.d/apache restart

• HTTPS should work.

Try: https://hostname/

Or the generic procedure…

Download Apache 2 latest Source disrtibution from:
http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
Unix Source :httpd-2.0.52.tar.gz

and unpack the package .

./configure –prefix=/usr/local/apache2 –with-mysql –with-susexec
–enable-mods-shared=all
make
make install 

Now for Subversion configuration ,

Install the packages

subversion

libapache2-svn

subversion-tools

Creating a repository

In Mandriva and Fedora

cd /home
mkdir  myrepo
chown apache myrepo

In Suse

cd /home
mkdir  myrepo
chown www-run myrepo

In  Mandirva and Fedora

su apache -c "svnadmin create myrepo/src"

Then

su -

and edit your httpd.conf

in the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf 

 In VirtualHost declaration, add

 <Location /myrepo/src>
DAV svn
SVNPath /home/myrepo/src

    AuthType Basic
AuthName "Ushustech Repository"
AuthUserFile /home/myrepo/.dav_svn.passwd
Require valid-user
</Location>

• Use this instead of “Require valid-user” if you don’t want to use passwords for read-only access

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

 Append this in the httpd.conf file.
LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so
LoadModule dav_svn_module modules/mod_dav_svn.so

make sure that mod_dav_svn.so ,mod_dav.so and mod_dav_fs.so are present in the httpd.conf .

Adding the Subversion users.

su apache -c "htpasswd -c -m /home/myrepo/.dav_svn.passwd maxin"

Give password for that user two times as usual .

Add another user. Now remember not to use the -c in httpasswd command or it will recreate the
file with just that user.

su apache -c "htpasswd -m /home/myrepo/.dav_svn.passwd sree"

Now let's test the repository

1. Using your browser. Load https://127.0.0.1/myrepo/src/ in your browser. Replace hostname with your host name or ip. You will get something like:

Revision 0: /
Powered by Subversion version 1.1.3 (r12730).

Now start using subversion from the command line

svn co https://127.0.0.1/myrepo/src

This will prompt for username and password of a valid user.

This will create a directory src in your machine. Then

cd src

and add the directories

mkdir  branches

mkdir site

mkdir  tags

mkdir  trunk

Then type

svn add *

svn update

svn commit

 Test your subversion from browser again  mozilla https://127.0.0.1/myrepo/src

Revision 1: /
* branches/
* site/
* tags/
* trunk/
Powered by Subversion version 1.1.3 (r12730).

For Suse, the apache user is not present, So replace that apache with www-run. Also the htpasswd command is htpasswd2 in Suse. Other configurations are same .

Well that's all. Keep your subversion repo clean using my previous shell script :-). Happy Subversioning ..