Here is the following steps for setup svn server on debian platform. The setup uses svn+ssh
$ apt-get update $ apt-get install subversion $ apt-get install libapache2-svn
The package libapache2-svn will install the subversion WebDAV apache module.
The following command used for creating repository
$ mkdir /var/repos/ $ svnadmin create /var/repos/project
Create user and group and assign to user to a group
$ adduser username1 //give the user name and next you'll get some options like password and others just give and continue $ adduser username2 $ groupadd svngroup // just create group for svn users $ addgroup username1 svngroup // add the user username1 to groupsvn $ addgroup username2 svngroup // add the user username2 to groupsvn
The repository directory need to get proper permission
$ chown -R :svngroup /var/repos/ $ chmod -R 775 /var/repos/
Make the ssh connectivity
$ mkdir ~/.ssh/ $ cd ~/.ssh/ $ ssh-keygen -t dsa $ cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh username1@yourdomain.com // or use id of your server
Need to use ssh agent to keep user authenticated,
$ ssh-agent $ ssh-add $ ssh username1@yourdoman.com
Done, you can import, checkout from her or you can do from your local machine. I used smartSVN to setup here is the link i’m using for connect
URL: svn+ssh://yourdomain.com/var/repos/project or Username: username1 Password: mypassword
We can use svnserve by the following command
$ svnserve -d
this way I could connect to server with smartSVN client successfully and I could checkout, commit and doing everything what we svn supports.
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