Thread: How to Install,configure and access SVN in RHEL 5.0

How to install and configure SVN and Access it on web browser using apache on RHEL 5.0

Me too looking for this.. if any one have step by step procedure to setup this plz share your links here..

Ensure you have the rpmforge repo installed, I grab my subversion updates from here.

Code:

yum install subversion

This is enough to run the server


Create a directory for your subversion repository, ideally on a seperate parition with plenty of space to avoid having to scrub it in a hurry and discard material.

I have mine on /var/www/svn and have a symlink to /svn for ease of writing the urls for svnserve use.

You shoud also create user account designated as the owner of the subversion repository.

Code:

/usr/sbin/useradd -c 'Subversion User' -r svn

Code:

mkdir /var/www/svn; ln -s /var/www/svn /svn
chown -R svn:svn /var/www/svn

sudo to become that user, and make sure that /var/www/svn is writable.

Then try creating and testing a Subversion repo:

Code:

svnadmin create /svn/test
svn mkdir -m "initial setup" /svn/test/trunk
svn list file:///svn/test/

To view your SVN repo on apache, you can use ViewVC: ViewVC: Repository Browsing

You can grab the rpm form rpmforge.

Code:

 yum install viewvc

The only thing you need to change in configuration is the root_parents variable.

Code:

 root_parents = /var/www/svn : svn,

To view your repo just browse to the viewvc directory on your subversion server: http://subversionsrv/viewvc


Here is some more info on configuring the subversion server: http://www.xsteve.at/prg/vc_svn/svn.txt

Hope this helps


Ananth