Setting up Subversion server on Linux (CentOS)

1. Subversion is normally installed in CentOS 5.3 but just to make sure, issue the which command in the terminal.

# which svn

/usr/bin/svn will be displayed if svn is installed

2. We then edit iptables to allow connections at port 3690.

# vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Then insert the following line before the line that contains "-j REJECT"

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 3690 -j ACCEPT

Then save the iptables

# service iptables save

3. Lets now create a repository

# svnadmin create PATH_TO_REPO/myrepo

4. Then edit the configuration file, svnserve.conf located within myrepo/conf directory.

# vi PATH_TO_REPO/myrepo/conf/svnserve.conf

[general]

anon-access=none

aut-access=write

password-db=passwd

realm=myproject

5. Add user logins by editing the passwd file at the same directory.

# vi PATH_TO_REPO/myrepo/conf/passwd

[users]

iamuser=iamuser1234

6. If svnserve is already running, stop it first then start it again to apply the changes we made.

# killall svnserve

# svnserve -d

If you're using TortoiseSVN in Windows, myrepo can now be accessed through

svn://192.xxx.xxx.xxx/PATH_TO_REPO/myrepo

If in case you want to access the server using the realm name e.g. svn://192.xxx.xxx.xxx/myproject, just start svnserve by

svnserve -d -r /PATH_TO_REPO/myrepo