HowTo SVN (Sub Version) on JeOS

Can you imagine a development environment without a source codes repository ? I can remember a site listing the top ten reasons not to use VSS, but I was unable to locate it by search. I have personally worked with VSS and I agree with it most of the time. I have been told that even Microsoft does not use VSS internally. I do not know if that statement is true, but no Microsoft engineer with whom I'm acquainted uses it. How ever I wish to see a sophisticated source repository from Microsoft soon !

By the way I decided to deploy a SVN instant onn JeOS and I feel it's working birrlient with optimized kernal.

Let's start !!! Install JeOS on make it uptodate !

$ sudo apt-get update

Best thing is to install curl and it's help us to troubleshoot if something gose worng.

$ sudo apt-get install curl

I assume your system already have vim editing tool or type and install it using below command

$ sudo apt-get install vim

Install Apache

$ sudo apt-get install apache2

Now use curl and check whether it's up and running

$ curl http://localhost/

And you shoud see some like below, then you good to go with next step

"It's works!" with some html tags

Install SVN

$ sudo apt-get install subversion

Install required lib for theApache

$ sudo apt-get install libapache2-svn

Now you can create SVN folders as you wish

$ sudo mkdir /svn
$ sudo mkdir /svn/projects

And setup the folders usin below commands

$ sudo svnadmin create /svn/projects
$ sudo chown -R www-data /svn/projects

Create a password file and enter the first user in to your password file
$ sudo htpasswd -cm /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd user01

Add you will be asked the password and confirm password

And please note if you need to add more users in later;

$ sudo htpasswd /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd user02

No we configure Apache by editing the following file with Vim that we installed at the beginning

$ sudo vim /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf

All you really need to do is remove the comments "#" in the apropriate areas, finally dav_svn.conf should looks alike below;

DAV svn
SVNPath /svn/projects
AuthType BasicAuthName "Subversion Repository"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
Require valid-user

Restart Apache
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Thats it, you're done. You can get to your repository via your hosts browser by going to http://{your VM IP}/svn. You should get a username/password dialog which to enter the details you created in.

You can always use a third party software to make your life easier !!! http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/