When developing a project, you may want to keep a version control of all your files so that you can easily revert to an earlier page (or the previous revision) to fix any bugs or in the event that someone accidentally deleted your files.
In Ubuntu, the easiest way to do version control is to set up a Subversion (SVN) server. Next, we are going to create a directory to hold your repository. Give apache the access right to the repository Uncomment the codes by removing the ‘#’ in front of the following lines: If you have only one repository for your SVN, uncomment the following line Else if you are setting up multiple repositories, uncomment this line Remember that at any time, only SVNPath or SVNParentPath is uncommented. Do not uncomment both at the same time. Create a password for your username Restart apache Now open your browser and go to http://localhost/svn. If you see the following, the your installation is successful. You have successfully installed and configured SVN, now we need to import our project files to the SVN. Go to Applications->Programming->RapidSVN In the RapidSVN, go to Repository->Import In the window, enter the following: Click OK. Enter your username and password. Your project should be in the SVN now.
sudo apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn
sudo svnadmin create /var/lib/svn
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/lib/svn
sudo chmod 770 -R /var/lib/svn
Configure Apache for SVN access
gksu gedit /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf
<Location /svn>
...
DAV svn
...
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion Repository"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
...
<LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
Require valid-user
</LimitExcept>
</Location>
SVNPath /var/lib/svn
SVNParentPath /var/lib/svn
sudo htpasswd -cm /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd yourusername
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Importing your project into SVN
sudo apt-get install rapidsvn
Thanks for the article! I noticed one quick change due to renaming of htpasswd2 in apache-utils- when configuring the password, the line should be updated from:
sudo htpasswd2 -cm /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd yourusername
to:
sudo htpasswd -cm /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd yourusername
Best,
-Scott
Thanks for informing. I have make the changes.
Hi i just want to setup subversion for the first time.I followed your howto but when i go to http://localhost/svn i get:
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /svn on this server.
Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.5.4 Server at localhost Port 80
Can i do something to fix it?
Did you set the correct permission for the svn folder:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/lib/svn
sudo chmod 770 -R /var/lib/svn
Thanks for your reply.I created /home/pavlos/Documents/programming/code/svn as mine svn folder with the permissions below :
$ sudo ls -lah /home/pavlos/Documents/programming/code/svn
[sudo] password for pavlos:
total 32K
drwxrwx— 6 www-data www-data 4.0K 2009-08-17 22:01 .
drwxrwxrwx 11 pavlos pavlos 4.0K 2009-08-23 22:37 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2009-08-17 22:01 conf
drwxr-sr-x 6 root root 4.0K 2009-08-17 22:06 db
-r–r–r– 1 root root 2 2009-08-17 22:01 format
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2009-08-17 22:01 hooks
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2009-08-17 22:01 locks
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 229 2009-08-17 22:01 README.txt
The strange thing is that with SVNPath is working ok but with SVNParentPath no.
Try to add this line in your dav_svn.conf:
SVNParentPath on
This worked fine for me
Ups.. following is correct:
SVNListParentPath on
sry, it is:
SVNListParentPath on
Thanks – very useful. I found that, since I'd chosen SVNParentPath rather than SVNPath, I at first received the 'FORBIDDEN' message just like Pavlos. I had to create a repository on the command line:
sudo svnadmin create /var/lib/svn/plone
– and then the repository was visible in the browser here:
http://localhost/svn/plone
– just in case it helps anyone