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SVNManager on Debian

By rzelazko  //  Apache, Linux, Pear, PHP, Subversion  //  3 Comments

This howto describe installation process of SVNManager od Debian, should also work on Ubuntu. Howto based on http://redimp.de/(…)SVNManager.html.

First step is installation of apache2 and php5, it won’t be describe here.
Next step is installation of necessary packages

aptitude install php-pear libapache2-svn subversion
pear install -f -o VersionControl_SVN


Setup dav_svn module

vi /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf

Put there:

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<location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /var/lib/svn/repos
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion Repository"
AuthUserFile /var/lib/svn/htpasswd
Require valid-user
# SSLRequireSSL
AuthzSVNAccessFile /var/lib/svn/accessfile
</location>

Init repo dirs

mkdir -p /var/lib/svn/repos
touch /var/lib/svn/htaccess
touch /var/lib/svn/htpasswd
touch /var/lib/svn/accessfile
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/lib/svn

Download and setup SVNManager

mysql -u root -p -e"CREATE DATABASE svnmanager; \
GRANT select, insert, update, delete, create, drop, alter on svnmanager.* \
to svnmanager identified by '**password**'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"
cd /tmp
wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/svnmanager/svnmanager-1.04.tar.gz
tar -xvzf svnmanager-*.tar.gz
rm svnmanager-*.tar.gz
mv svnmanager-* svnmanager
mv svnmanager /var/www/
cd /var/www/svnmanager
cp config.php.linux config.php
a2enmod dav_svn
invoke-rc.d apache2 restart
vi config.php

Now you must setup your config.php

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<?php
//Shell command's
$htpassword_cmd = "/usr/bin/htpasswd";
$svn_cmd        = "/usr/bin/svn";
$svnadmin_cmd   = "/usr/bin/svnadmin";

//Subversion
$svn_repos_loc  = "/var/lib/svn/repos";
$svn_passwd_file = "/var/lib/svn/htpasswd";
$svn_access_file = "/var/lib/svn/accessfile";

//SMTP Server
$smtp_server    = "localhost";

//Database
$dsn            = "mysqli://svnmanager:**password**@localhost/svnmanager";

//Administrator account
$admin_name="admin";
$admin_temp_password="admin";

THE END! Now you can go to http://localhost/svnmanager and configure your SVN via SVNManager. Notice! Created via SVNManager repo path should look like http://localhost/svn/repo-name-provided-in-svnmanager

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3 Comments to “SVNManager on Debian”

  • Saiful January 28, 2009 at 13:13

    There’s some problem in my database, so I need to issue GRANT command in mysql with host definition:
    GRANT select, insert, update, delete, create, drop, alter on svnmanager.*
    to ‘svnmanager’@'localhost’ identified by ‘**password**’;

    Thanks for your tutorial

  • Shweta May 20, 2011 at 13:26

    Hi All,

    * I have configured Apache2.2.17 + subversion 1.6.15 + PHP5.3.6 + the pear package which comes with the PHP distribution.. Both Apache and PHP are working fine , when i run phpinfo.php file through localhost it is getting executed.

    * when i try this command :
    pear install -f -o VersionControl_SVN , it is giving me error like:
    No releases available for package “pear.php.net/VersionControl_SVN”
    install failed

    Please someone help in this..
    i wanted to configure SVNManager further please help me in this.

    Regards,
    Shweta

  • rzelazko May 20, 2011 at 15:00

    Hi,
    I wrote this post almost two years ago, so probably you should find more recent solution.
    Regards,

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