Set up my svn server for svnsync purpose

OS = RHEL/CentOS/Fedora

1. Install LAMP or at least httpd and php

yum install httpd php php-common

yum install php-pecl-apc php-cli php-pear php-pdo php-mysql php-pgsql php-pecl-mongo php-sqlite php-pecl-memcache php-pecl-memcached php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-xml

start apache:

Start apache server: /etc/init.d/httpd start ## use restart after update ## OR ## service httpd start ## use restart after update chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on

Add following content to /var/www/html/test.php file to test php

<?php
 
    phpinfo();
 
?>

2. then install svn:

yum install mod_dav_svn subversion

Add following config to /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf file:

LoadModule dav_svn_module modules/mod_dav_svn.so LoadModule authz_svn_module modules/mod_authz_svn.so   <Location /svn> DAV svn SVNParentPath /var/www/svn AuthType Basic AuthName "Subversion repositories" AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-users Require valid-user </Location>

Add subversion users:

## Create testuser ## htpasswd -cm /etc/svn-auth-users testuser New password: Re-type new password: Adding password for user testuser   ## Create testuser2 ## htpasswd -m /etc/svn-auth-users testuser2 New password: Re-type new password: Adding password for user testuser2

Create and configure SVN repository

mkdir /var/www/svn cd /var/www/svn   svnadmin create testrepo chown -R apache.apache testrepo   chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /var/www/svn/testrepo   ## Following enables commits over http ## chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t /var/www/svn/testrepo

Restart Apache:

/etc/init.d/httpd restart ## OR ## service httpd restart

Goto http://localhost/svn/testrepo address and you should see something like following, write username and password:

SVN testrepo revision 0:

6. Configure repository

To disable anonymous access and enable access control add following rows to testrepo/conf/svnserve.conf file:

## Disable anonymous access ## anon-access = none   ## Enable access control ## authz-db = authz

7. Create trunk, branches and tags structure under testrepo

Create “template” directories with following command:

mkdir -p /tmp/svn-structure-template/{trunk,branches,tags}

Then import template to project repository using “svn import” command:

svn import -m 'Initial import' /tmp/svn-structure-template/ http://localhost/svn/testrepo/ Adding /tmp/svn-structure-template/trunk Adding /tmp/svn-structure-template/branches Adding /tmp/svn-structure-template/tags   Committed revision 1.

Check results on browser and see testrepo revision 1:

svnadmin create /var/www/svn/iphone-mirror

chown -R apache.labtools /var/www/svn/iphone-mirror

vi /var/www/svn/iphone-mirror/hooks/pre-revprop-change

#!/bin/sh

USER="$3"

if [ "$USER" = "user-who-is-allowed-to-do-the svnsync" ]; then exit 0; fi

echo "Only the svnsync user can change revprops" >&2

exit 1

chmod 755 /var/www/svn/iphone-mirror/hooks/pre-revprop-change

svnsync init --username cccc file:///var/www/svn/iphone-mirror svn://xx.xx.xx.121:3692/

svnsync sync --username cccc file:///var/www/svn/iphone-mirror




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more URL's

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/svnsync.txt
http://josephscott.org/archives/2010/01/setting-up-svnsync-and-svn-notify/
http://www.kirkdesigns.co.uk/mirror-svn-repository-svnsync
https://blogs.oracle.com/ashamash/entry/using_svnsync_to_migrate_an
http://blogs.collab.net/subversion/mirroring-repos


Schedule a cron job to run the sync periodically, say once every hour (on a nice odd number like 17 after the hour): 17 * * * * /usr/local/bin/svnsync --non-interactive sync file:///home/svn/repo-name