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Subversion on Ubuntu

I set up subversion in Ubuntu. First, need to get Apache and Subversion using apt-get. Need to get the mod_dav_svn too. Then create the repository and set up the config files and authentication, restart apache, and all done.

Sounds simple? Not. There were many problems I encountered. First, I couldn't commit because of permission denied. Turned out I have set the permission to allow www-data to write to the repo. Second, I can't get the svn_authz_module to work. And lastly, I can't browse the repository at the parent path.

And during the process, I found out that Ubuntu is quite tough. sudo this, sudo that and a lot of command lines.

Sadly, the subversion package available is still version 1.3.
Compiling the source seems tough, there some dependencies to install first.

Labels: subversion, tech, ubuntu

posted by Hendy Tanata @ 23:22