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What I would like to do is point the webroot from my dev webserver to some dir that is in some way linked to svn so when I commit changes they will be automatically visible on my dev webserver.

Any clue how I can do this?

EDIT

i'm creating a django project so i'm justing the Django development server

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You can make your wwwroot a working copy of the svn repository, by checking it out from the server. To get the automatic updates working, you'll either have to look into a post-commit hook or have a cron job (or similar) run a task to update the wwwroot every X minutes or so.

Sander Rijken 2010-09-23 14:27:56

Or you could have a continuous integration process listen for commits and update your working copy.

Rohith 2010-09-23 14:29:10

Either method you choose, it would be beneficial to consider (assuming your server is Apache) using a .htaccess file to disallow access to the contents of your .svn directory.

Gary Chambers 2010-09-23 15:19:14

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Generally, you will want to check your website out into a directory that you use as your web root, and then set up a Subversion post-commit hook that will check out the latest version into that directory every time someone commits a new version.

Brian Campbell 2010-09-23 14:28:39

Exactly, the web server cannot look at VCS repository and decide which versions will be current for the website or even read them as php or css or html files. A simple way would be to script the process of checking out from the latest release to the target server and a more sophisticated way would be to go for CI (Continuous Integration) with a tool like Hudson.

PurplePilot 2010-09-23 14:52:40

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