How to run Multiple Projects on Subversion Server on CentOS.

[B?rbel]

Hey friends, I have come to know about the new technology, subversion server to run multiple projects, this technique runs the multiple projects at the same time. I hope you all must have heard about it, so my question is how can get success in it, I have tried to do it on my system; my system is CentOS 5.5 with 32bit version. I search on internet and I did it as per the instruction, but still not getting success in it. I think problem is with control panel, I am using kloxo control panel. So can anyone give me more information on the same? I am waiting for your reply, thanks a lot in advance.

[Zhankana_n]

Hey I have also done some search on it and I have some solution for you. I think it is not working on your system because of Centos version. This thing can be done in CentOS 4.x/RHEL 4 and CentOS 5.1/RHEL 5, but let it be, I think it will work, if you do from yum. To install you will need below mentioned package:

[root@lucifer ~]# yum install mod_dav_svn subversion

After that you will need to install Apache, when you install from yum, you will be able to see the long list among them 2 will automatically resolve themselves, depending on your system mileage of PC will change. Try this steps, it will solve your problem. All the Best!

[Ekpah]

Hi, I am completely agreed with the above post and I am happy that there are some easy steps available to install such application. Before you install this on your system, keep in mind that your Apache configuration is as below mentioned:

BrowserMatch "^SVN/" is_subversion

CustomLog logs/svn.log "%t %u %{SVN-ACTION}e" env=SVN-ACTION
CustomLog logs/access_log combined env=!is_subversion

<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /var/svn/repos
SVNListParentPath On
SVNIndexXSLT "/svnindex.xsl"
AuthType Digest
AuthName "My Subversion"
AuthDigestDomain /svn
AuthDigestProvider file
AuthUserFile /var/svn/cfg/htdigest.txt
AuthzSVNAccessFile /var/svn/cfg/authz
Satisfy Any
Require valid-user
</Location>

[DanielV]

Hello, I also wanted to share some of the information on Apache; it may happen that you have already installed apache but it is not giving the logs as mentioned in the above post. If such thing happens then go to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and then change the ServerName directive, if you find complications and need more help and check for the below mentioned logs:

[root@lucifer ~] vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf -- Edit what you need and save the file
[root@lucifer ~] service httpd start
[root@lucifer ~] chkconfig httpd on

I hope this will be enough to solve your problem, All the Best!

[Enriquee]

Hello everyone, those who want to do this and gone through to the above all post and solve the all minor error then I have the way of using Subversion. The most common thing which comes in use is as below:

Svn import
Svn commit (ci)
Svn checkout (co)

This will help you to import file from other location and it will checkout and then it will save your changes as per your need. So just try this. Given below is the example of this:

[root@lucifer ~] cd /tmp
[root@lucifer ~] mkdir mytestproj
[root@lucifer ~] cd mytestproj
[root@lucifer ~] mkdir configurations options main
[root@lucifer ~] vim configurations/testconf1.cfg -- Add whatever you want to these files.
[root@lucifer ~] vim options/testopts1.cfg
[root@lucifer ~] vim main/mainfile1.cfg

I hope my way will be understandable for you all! Enjoy the technology.

[Dolsy_bendal]

Hey friends, I have done research on the some of the more feature of it and I have got some information on access controls. Using this feature you can restrict user to use some of the important document. ACLs can be enabled with AuthzSVNAccessFile option, which help in the access control. You can have a look at below example:

AuthzSVNAccessFile /etc/svn-acl-conf
You can add this to the relevant Location section: 
<Location /repos>
        DAV svn
        SVNParentPath /var/www/svn/repos
        AuthzSVNAccessFile /etc/svn-acl-conf
        AuthType Basic
        AuthName "Subversion repos"
        AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-conf
        Require valid-user
</Location>

[B?rbel]

Hey guys, I just wanted to say that, I was in need of the same answer, and I knew that I will get the best satisfactory level answer on this forum only, that’s the reason why I like and why I post my question over here. I have tried all the methods and features which are mentioned above and all are working smoothly. Thanks a lot for replying to my question, without you all it was not possible!