Installing WebSVN on Centos 6.7

WebSVN is tool to view onto your subversion repositories that been designed to reflect the Subversion methodology. You can view the log of any file or directory and see a list of all the files changed, added or deleted in any given revision. You can also view the differences between two versions of a file so as to see exactly what was changed in a particular revision.

Features:

WebSVN offers the following features:

Easy to use interface;

Customisable templating system;

Colourisation of file listings;

Blame view;

Log message searching;

RSS feed support.

Assuming that you have aleady installed the Subbersion, or follow the link to setup SVN, click here

Installation

1. Download the websvn to /var/www/html.

# cd /var/www/html

# wget http://websvn.tigris.org/files/documents/1380/49057/websvn-2.3.3.zip

2.  Extract the zip package.

# unzip websvn-2.3.3.zip

# mv websvn-2.3.3 websvn

3.  Installl php to your system.

#  yum install php

4. Edit web svn config.

# cd /var/www/html/websvn/include

# mv distconfig.php config.php

# vi config.php

// Configure these lines if your commands aren't on your path.

//

 $config->setSVNCommandPath('/usr/bin');

 $config->setDiffPath('/usr/bin');

// For syntax colouring, if option enabled...

 $config->setEnscriptPath('/usr/bin');

 $config->setSedPath('/bin');

// For delivered tarballs, if option enabled...

 $config->setTarPath('/bin');

// For delivered GZIP'd files and tarballs, if option enabled...

 $config->setGZipPath('/bin');

//

 $config->parentPath('/var/www/svn/');

$extEnscript[".pl"] = "perl";

$extEnscript[".py"] = "python";

$extEnscript[".sql"] = "sql";

$extEnscript[".java"] = "java";

$extEnscript[".html"] = "html";

$extEnscript[".xml"] = "html";

$extEnscript[".thtml"] = "html";

$extEnscript[".tpl"] = "html";

$extEnscript[".sh"] = "bash";

~

5.  Reload apache and start websvn link http://ip/websvn.

# service httpd restart

Adding authentication you can add this configuration

vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/websvn.conf

Alias /svn /var/www/html/websvn

<Directory /var/www/html/websvn>

                DirectoryIndex index.php

                Options FollowSymLinks

                Order allow,deny

                Allow from all

                AuthType Basic

                AuthName "Subversion repository"

                 AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-users

                Require valid-user

</Directory>

Adding users to authentication file

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

Keywords: Subversion, SVN, SVN Server, Adding Users on SVN Server, Backup SVN, Restore SVN.