Installing Subversion+Websvn on FreeBSD from ports

Installing Subversion on FreeBSD from ports

1. Go to /usr/ports/devel/subversion and run  make install clean.

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   cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion make install clean

   NOTE: If you get a failure due to apr already being installed but not being built correctly, then uninstall apr and reinstall it with the default settings. Then go back and try to install subversion again.

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   cd /usr/ports/devel/apr make deinstall make BATCH=yes install

2. Configure Subversion to start at bootup.

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   echo # Subversion >> /etc/rc.conf echo ‘svnserve_enable=”YES”‘ >> /etc/rc.conf echo ‘svnserve_data=”/home/svn/repos”‘ echo ‘svnserve_user=”svn”‘ echo ‘svnserve_group=”svn”‘

3. Create an svn user using the adduser command line wizard. This command will walk you through creating an svn user. Make sure to use the nologin shell and a random password so the user cannot login. Also, lockout the account after creation.

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   # adduser Username: svn Full name: svn Uid (Leave empty for default): Login group [svn]: Login group is svn. Invite svn into other groups? []: Login class [default]: Shell (sh csh tcsh nologin) [sh]: nologin Home directory [/home/svn]: Home directory permissions (Leave empty for default): Use password-based authentication? [yes]: Use an empty password? (yes/no) [no]: Use a random password? (yes/no) [no]: yes Lock out the account after creation? [no]: Username : svn Password : Full Name : svn Uid : 1002 Class : Groups : svn Home : /home/svn Home Mode : Shell : /usr/sbin/nologin Locked : no OK? (yes/no): yes adduser: INFO: Successfully added (svn) to the user database. adduser: INFO: Password for (svn) is: /2CZct48a Add another user? (yes/no): no Goodbye!

4. Make a repos directory in the svn user’s home directory.

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   mkdir /home/svn/repos

5. Create a repository.

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   cd /home/svn mkdir repos cd repos svnadmin create MyApp cd MyApp mkdir branches tags trunk chown -R svn:svn ../MyApp

   This will create a MyApp folder and populate it with the files needed to start a repository.

   This is default subversion repository folder structure:

   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/README.txt
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/format
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/conf
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/confauthz
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/conf/passwd
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/confsvnserve.conf
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/current
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/format
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/fs-type
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/fsfs.conf
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/min-unpacked-rev
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/rep-cache.db
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/revprops
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/revs
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/transactions
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/txn-current
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/txn-current-lock
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/txn-protorevs
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/uuid
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/write-lock
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/revprops/
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/revprops/0
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/revprops/0/0
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/revs/
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/revs/0
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/revs/0/0
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/transactions/
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/db/txn-protorevs/
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/hooks/
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/hooks/post-commit.tmpl
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/hooks/post-lock.tmpl
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/hooks/post-revprop-change.tmpl
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/hooks/post-unlock.tmpl
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/hooks/pre-commit.tmpl
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/hooks/pre-lock.tmpl
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/hooks/pre-revprop-change.tmpl
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/hooks/pre-unlock.tmpl
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/hooks/start-commit.tmpl
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/locks/
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/locks/db-logs.lock
   /home/svn/repos/MyApp/locks/db.lock
6. To configure a Repository and add users, edit the following file: /home/svn/repos/MyApp/conf/svnserve.conf

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   vi /home/svn/repos/MyApp/conf/svnserve.conf

   Uncomment lines below or just create a new svnserve.conf file with these
   lines:

   [general]
   anon-access = none
   auth-access = write
   password-db = /home/svn/userdb

   Now edit the following file:: /home/svn/repos/MyApp/passwd

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   vi /home/svn/repos/MyApp/passwd

   Add users. For example, to add a user allen1 with a password of P@@sswd! and another user jared with a password of My$ecre+1, the file would look like this:

   [users]
   allen1 = P@sswd!
   jared = My$ecre+1

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/usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve start

7. Now you should be able to connect to your repository with an svn client. TortoiseSVN is a popular windows tool that you can use to connect to your repository.Use the following to connect:svn://allen1:P@sswd!@ServerName/MyApp
8. Now let’s go install WEBSVN from Ports:

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   cd /usr/ports/devel/websvn make install clean cd /usr/local/www/websvn/ cp distconfig.php config.php vi config.ph

9. You should have the config file opened up. Let’s make a few setup changes and we are ready to use WebSVN…
   $config->setSVNCommandPath(‘/usr/local/bin’);  // This where the SVN Commands are located
   ….
   $config->addRepository(‘My First APP’, ‘file:///home/svn/repositories/MyApp/’);  // You need to add this for each Repo, better if it was dynamic
10. Go into your apache config and add The WEBSVN setup.

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    cd /usr/local/etc/apache22/Includes/ vi websvn.conf

    Now add the following to the websvn.conf file and restart Apache.

    Alias /websvn “/usr/local/www/websvn”
    <Directory “/usr/local/www/websvn”>
    <IfModule mod_php5.c>
    php_admin_flag safe_mode Off
    php_admin_value register_globals    0
    php_value magic_quotes_gpc  0
    php_value magic_quotes_runtime  0
    php_value allow_call_time_pass_reference 0
    php_admin_value open_basedir “.:/var/tmp:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/www/websvn/”
    php_admin_value safe_mode_include_dir “.:/var/tmp:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/www:/usr/local/share/pear”
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine on
    AllowOverride All
    Order deny,allow
    deny from all
    allow from 192.168.0.1/11
    </Directory>

    ServerName# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 restart

11. That is it, now go checkout your repos! http://myservername/websvn/

This article was originally posted at http://rhyous.com/2009/11/07/how-to-install-subversion-1-6-6-on-freebsd-7-2/ but I made some security changes for better jailing and the WebSVN install.