Dear experts,
At SVN / Subversion, how is it to change SVN default port listener both at "server side" and "Tortoise- client side"? Is it possible to have the listener to listen in default port and additional port (more than one port)?
Thanks & regards
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Hello sunnycoder,
thanks for your input.
what about at client side? what should I change?
The reason to have additional port is:
I thought, TortoiseSVN by default is trying to connect to 3690 as default port. Thus, i don't want to disrupt my colleagues that able to connect successfully to 'default port' since they're not blocked by firewall.
Thanks & regards.
clients do not listen ... however, you will have to tell them which port to connect to ... typically it is indicated as url:port .. i.e. whatever you current URL is followed by a colon followed by port number - note no spaces. This should work. In case it doesn't pls let me know and I will dig further.
If your motivation for all this hassle is ", i don't want to disrupt my colleagues" then please go with the default configuration. Your colleages are not connected to port 3690. SVN uses 3690 only for accepting connections - not for running sessions. As soon as a client connecte server indicates the client a different port number and further exchanges are on a different port. That is the reason why multiple clients can be simulatenously connected. Each of them is communicating on a different port.
Hi Sunny,
Thanks for your detail explanation and prompt response. I will try it and let you know. Will come back to you on Monday.
Looking at my issue (I cannot connect to SVN at certain place only - which most likely due to firewall will block port 3000 and above), I am not sure why you are suggesting "please go with the default configuration"?
Will let you know.
Thanks again!!
>which most likely due to firewall will block port 3000 and above
I was not aware of this policy!!! I suspected from your previous question that firewall is blocking your connections but was not aware of this policy ....
I could not find a way of running SVN on multiple ports .... may be you can try passing two --listen-port arguments but I suspect it wont work.
Changing SVN server would mean that all of your sites would need a change to connect to a different port ... Unblocking a port on a singel firewall seemed to be much less hassle. Hence the recommendation of sticking to defaults.
Pointless but simple :
To host svn server on multiple ports ...
1. Take a copy of the existing svnserve.exe.
2. run the svn service setup command prompt again and point at the copy (on another thread here somewhere).
Don't forget to specify a different port or it will fail of course.
The whole point in a server is that it responds to all calls for that service on a given ports.
Its like saying ...
I want 2 copies of IIS running ... why? Just create a second website / in this case a second repos.
Running the service on ports already open will likely affect other services on your network.
As i understand just about every firewall will allow any outgoing connections but they all block incoming connections.
So ...
If you are connecting to svn server on a client at work and the server is at home.
You home firewall needs to open the relevant ports, nothing changes at work.
Chances are this is a proxying issue, your "connection" is being refused by a proxy server becasue it is not standard traffic for the business.
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by: sunnycoderPosted on 2008-04-25 at 01:08:25ID: 21437699
Hello isuhendro,
To change the default server port, start it with --listen-port NNNN where NNNN is your port number
> Is it possible to have the listener to listen in default port and additional port (more than one port)?
Why would you want that? Can you please give some details?
Regards,
sunnycoder