SVN setup on semi-dedicated server (Linux)

Question

Hi, I'm going through the process of setting up SVN on my remote web server (Linux Centos), and I'm needing a bit of help to make sure I do it correctly. So far I've installed SVN and used svnadmin create to set up a repo at /home/repos. The plan would be to set up projects within /home/repos e.g /home/repos/project1 etc. I've also edited subversion.conf as follows:

<Location /repos>
    DAV svn   
    SVNParentPath /home/repos
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Subversion repos"
    AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-conf
    Require valid-user 
</Location>

I then set up my auth file in /etc/svn-auth-conf.

This is my first bash at setting up SVN and I want to set it up on the web server so that I can checkout web projects to my laptop to do development work, then make commits back to the server. Am I going the right way about it? I'm a solo developer and don't want anything overly complicated as this stage.

Also, I get a 404 when I try and navigate to http://webserverIP/~repos/ - not sure why this is happening...usually this is how I access different accounts I've set up on the server.

Answer 1

SVNParentPath is a directory where you store your repositories, it is not a repo itself. Create a repo inside like /home/repos/project1 - and not in /home/repos itself.

As your Location is /repos access it like http://webserverIP/repos/project1.

Answer 2

I'd bring to your attention the possibility of using svn+ssh instead of http. Once you set up your private/public keys, you won't have to type in passwords unless you set up one on your ssh agent. You will also not need to run a web server, just your ssh server which I assume you already have running.

Check out this page and look for tunneling over SSH.