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Setting up a Subversion server using Apache on Ubuntu
By admin | August 9, 2010
Subversion is an excellent open-source solution for keeping track of the different versions while developing software. Here, we will see how to set up a subversion server on an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server to provide programmers with the ability to use Subversion.
Prerequisities
Apache 2 should have already been installed and configured with SSL – if not, see the Ubuntu Server Guide for more details. Install the packages subversion and libapache2-svn:
sudo apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn
Setting up
- Create a home for the Subversion files:
sudo mkdir -p /var/svn
- Open up /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf in your favourite text editor of choice, and add the following text at the bottom (ignore anything already there):
<Location /svn> DAV svn SVNParentPath /var/svn SVNListParentPath On AuthType Basic AuthName "Subversion Repository" AuthUserFile /etc/subversion/passwd <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT> Require valid-user </LimitExcept> </Location> - Add a user to the Subversion – if you don’t, you may end up with strange errors like “svn: Server sent unexpected return value (500 Internal Server Error) in response to MKACTIVITY request” when trying to commit.
sudo htpasswd -c /etc/subversion/passwd admin
It will prompt for a password – just give it something.
- You’re good to go – although without any projects the server won’t have anything to commit to. Add a project to the server:
sudo mkdir -p /var/svn/project sudo svnadmin create /var/svn/project
Results/Errors
svn commit -m nomsg test1 test2 --username=root --password=top_secret_root_password_here
svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: Server sent unexpected return value (500 Internal Server Error) in response to MKACTIVITY request for '/svn/project/!svn/act/53aca034-c64b-5b41-8bf4- 2715d91af049'
This error is because you do not have a valid login passed to the server, although it could use a much, much more descriptive message than “Internal Server Error”. Remember the login is not the Unix login, but instead the login created with htpassed.
svn commit -m nomsg test01 test02 --user name=admin --password=password_createdby_htpasswd_here
Adding test01 Adding test02 Committed revision 1.
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Topics: Internet, Linux | 7 Comments »
November 25th, 2010 at 03:57
is its posible to view the source browser?
like http://localhost/svn:8433
May 20th, 2011 at 11:57
This may seem obvious, but somehow I overlooked it during the setup of the repo. If you’re creating that /etc/svn/passwd file for the first time as root, then you need to alter the ownership as well:
chown -R www-data:subversion /etc/svn
If you do not, then you get the same 500 error as described above since the web server cannot authenticate the user.
I hope this helps others as well.
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