{"id":79,"date":"2008-02-11T07:45:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T14:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2009-08-11T07:57:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T14:57:20","slug":"subversion-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Subversion on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why is it always so hard to setup applications in Linux? Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get me wrong I much prefer setting up complex applications in Linux to setting them up in Windows but still there must be an easier way. I just spent several hours setting up subversion on my Ubuntu machine which involved some time on help pages and some time debugging and some time figuring out how I wanted my setup to work vs. other people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s setups. So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m documenting some of my problems and solutions here just in case some other poor soul has a similar issue.<\/p>\n

Basic Subversion setup<\/h4>\n

To begin the following url was an excellent help guide to start with. The guide described everything except how to do ssl encryption and I had some issues with the authentication which is detailed below.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/Subversion<\/a><\/p>\n

Authentication issues<\/h4>\n

Once I got everything installed and working I tried doing a checkout on another machine. Much to my surprise the checkout worked but asked for no username or password. For some reason the server was requiring a username and password to write to a file on svn but not to read. Since I wanted my files to be kept private I had to lookup some documentation on how to change the authentication. I recommend this site<\/a>, it is fairly cryptic but it has some good examples. I ended changing the \/etc\/apache2\/mods-available\/dav_svn.conf<\/em> so it would only allow bob and myself to make changes.<\/p>\n


\n<Location \/svn\/compilers>
\nDAV svn
\nSVNPath \/home\/svn\/compilers
\nAuthType Basic
\nAuthName \"compilers subversion repository\"
\nAuthUserFile \/etc\/subversion\/passwd
\nrequire user kami bob
\n<\/Location>
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

SSL Encryption<\/h4>\n

Using the basic setup SVN sends all passwords and other data in the clear. This is somewhat insecure and I wanted to enable SSL encryption. There is a nice Ubuntu documentation page<\/a> on how to do this. The only problem is that a default install of apache2 on Ubuntu doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come with the apache2-ssl-certificate application. I found a discussion forum<\/a> that talks about the issue and proposes several solutions. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve quoted the solution I used below:<\/p>\n

* apache2-ssl.tar.gz<\/a> (964 bytes, application\/x-tar)<\/p>\n

You can grab ssleay.cnf and apache2-ssl-certificate from Edgy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s apache2 version.<\/p>\n

I hope this workaround works for people who bothered by this issue. Extract the package and put ssleay.cnf to \/usr\/share\/apache2\/ and apache2-ssl-certificate to \/usr\/sbin.<\/p>\n

Create \/etc\/apache2\/ssl directory. Then apache2-ssl-certificate script should work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why is it always so hard to setup applications in Linux? Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get me wrong I much prefer setting up complex applications in Linux to setting them up in Windows but still there must be an easier way. I just spent several hours setting up subversion on my Ubuntu machine which involved some time on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[17,16,14,15],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-application-debug","tag-authentication","tag-ssl","tag-subversion","tag-ubuntu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2u4LH-1h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}