Installing WEBSVN on Ubuntu


The first thing to do is install Subversion and apache package for Subversion. All I need to do is:
sudo aptitude install subversion libapache2-svn
In the next step I need to create a directory where my repositories will be stored. In my case /var/sourcecontrol/svn/. The default location is /var/lib/svn/.
This command will create de directory where all my repositories will be:
sudo mkdir /var/sourcecontrol/svn
After create the directory I copied my entire repository backup from windows into this directory.
Note if I need to create new repositories I just had to do:
sudo svnadmin create /var/sourcecontrol/svn/newRepository
newRepository is the name of the new repository.
Next I need to change the owner of the files in order to access using apache. This can be done with this command:
sudo chown www-data:www-data  /var/sourcecontrol/svn/repositoryName -R
repositoryName is the name of the repository.
Next I just need to configure all my repositories to be access in apache. This can be done by editing the file /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf
To edit I just run the command:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf
Scroll all the way down and add the following code for each repository:
   
DAV svn
SVNPath /var/sourcecontrol/svn/repositoryName
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion repository repositoryName" 
Next restart the apache :
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Open a browser and type http://[serverip]/repositoryName and the repository is now availably in browser.
Notice the /repositoryName in the location is the same as /repositoryName in the url.
After this step you can start doing some checkin's :P
The next step is to install WebSVN. WebSVN is a very good web interface to see all repositories.
The first thing to do is install the package. This can be done with the command:
sudo aptitude install websvn
To have syntax highlight in the source code just install enscript . This can be done with this command:
sudo aptitude install enscript
Now a few things you should know:
During the install of WebSVN three screens will appear:
1 - Select the webserver for configuration.
2 - Specify the path of the subversion repositories, in this case (/var/sourcecontrol/svn).
3 - If all repositories are in the same parent folder leave this in blank otherwise you will have to specify all repositories separated by comma.
The package WebSVN is installed into /usr/share/websvn/, it's necessary to copy to /var/www/. This can be done with the command:
sudo cp -r /usr/share/websvn/ /var/www/
After copy to /var/www it's necessary to edit the file /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf, again with the command:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf
Next, scroll down and add the following

Options FollowSymLinks
order allow,deny
allow from all
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion Repository"    
Save the file and restart apache by doing:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Now just type http://[serverip]/websvn and you will see the WebSVN page and your repositories.
If for some reason your repositories have strange names in just edit the file /etc/websvn/svn_deb_conf.inc with the command :
sudo nano /etc/websvn/svn_deb_conf.inc
In this file you will have something like this:
// please edit /etc/websvn/config.php
// or use dpkg-reconfigure websvn
$config->parentPath("/var/sourcecontrol/svn/");
$config->addRepository("repositoryName\", file:///var/sourcecontrol/svn/repositoryName1);
$config->addRepository("repositoryName", "file:///var/sourcecontrol/svn/repositoryName2");
$config->setEnscriptPath("/usr/bin");
$config->setSedPath("/bin");
$config->useEnscript();
?>
Here it's possible specify the parent path of all repositories and specify each repository name and location. it's here also that it's specified the path on enscript installed before.

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