Subversion Installation on SuSE Linux

Prerequisites

Apache 2
Neon Library
Subversion Client

Installation

Prerequisites Installation

1.    Install Apache 2
2.    Install neon from first DVD, libneon27-0.29.6-6.7.1.x86_64.rpm
3.    Get Subversion Server and Client Binaries
4.    Install SubVersion Client first, and then Subversion Server
       to install SVN client on SuSE linux, please refer to http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=devel:tools:scm:svn&package=subversion

Subversion Installation

Install Subversion Client

# zypper install subversion

Change folder to where Subversion Server binary placed

# rpm -ivh subversion-server-1.6.17-51.1.x86_64.rpm

After Subversion installation, you should be able to find below file placements:

# rpm -ql subversion-server-1.6.17-51.1.x86_64
/etc/apache2/conf.d
/etc/apache2/conf.d/subversion.conf
/usr/lib64/apache2
/usr/lib64/apache2/mod_authz_svn.so
/usr/lib64/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so

Configuration

Configure Apache 2

1. Apply below changes in /etc/sysconfig/apache2

APACHE_MODULES="authz_host actions alias auth_basic authz_groupfile authn_file authz_user autoindex cgi dir include log_config mime negotiation setenvif status userdir asis dav dav_fs imagemap php5 perl python dav_svn authz_svn authz_default ssl"

< APACHE_SERVER_FLAGS="SSL"

2. SSL Enablement

Creating a “Dummy” Certificate

Generating a dummy certificate is simple. Just call the script /usr/bin/gensslcert. It creates or overwrites the following files:

    /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/ca.crt
    /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/server.crt
    /etc/apache2/ssl.key/server.key
    /etc/apache2/ssl.csr/server.csr

A copy of ca.crt is also placed at /srv/www/htdocs/CA.crt for download.

Apply below changes to /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/vhost-ssl.conf (copy it from vhost-ssl.template if it doesn't exist)
Comment out below line:
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3


Restart Apache2 and test both secure and non-secured connection.

Configure SVN Repository

Initialization

# svnadmin create /path/to/repository
# svnlook info /path/to/repository

Chang repository group and permission
Suggestion: change the group to apache2 group, permission 770

Edit subversion.conf as needed

Using local password file to authentication

 <Location /repos>
        DAV svn
        SVNPath /srv/svn/repos


        # Limit write permission to list of valid users.
        <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
                Require valid-user
        AuthType Basic
        AuthName "Test Repository"
        AuthUserFile /srv/svn/repos/conf/passwd
        SVNPathAuthz on
        AuthzSVNAccessFile /srv/svn/repos/conf/authz
        </LimitExcept>
</Location>

Using LDAP Authentication

 <Location /repos>
        DAV svn
        SVNPath /srv/svn/repos
        AuthType Basic
        AuthName "Utilities"

        AuthzLDAPAuthoritative Off
        AuthBasicProvider ldap

        AuthLDAPURL "ldap://ldap.goweekend.ca/dc=suzhou,dc=goweekend,dc=ca?uid?sub?(appperm=svnusers)"
        REQUIRE valid-user

        # Limit write permission to list of valid users.
        <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
                Require valid-user
        </LimitExcept>
</Location>

Repository Populating (optional)

Dump repository
# svnadmin dump /path/to/sourceRepository > repositoryDump.rep

Load repository from dump file
#  svnadmin load /path/to/targetRepository <repositoryDump.rep

Verification

open browser and type in url like below:

http://<server name>.domain.name/<repository name>