Installing SVN on Windows server

Thanks I will give this a try tomorrow.

Stilgar.

OK, been there, done that. It was a bit trickey - you have to leave a space after the = sign, and escape the path with \". Just something to take a note of.

Also, I used the --listening-port option, and now I'm accessing my repo through svn://<server-ip>:port/my-repo/.

My only issue now is authentication - yes, the file formats are quite easy to grasp, but 2 questions on them:
1. After changed, do I need to restart the service, or is it checking those files upon update/login request?
2. I set a new user and password in conf/passwd, and then went to authz and added these lines:

[repository:/test-rep]
my_user = rw
* =

However, committs from my client are failing, saying autherization failed. How come it didn't even ask for my username/pwd (it does do that on another rep I have on a different server, through http).

Also, when do I use the repository: keyword, and when don't I?

Thanks for your help,

Stilgar.

repository isnt a keyword in itself, repository should be replaced with the name of the repository i.e.

[test-rep:/]

would be the root folder of the test-rep repository.

Hope this helps,

mcuk_storm

I still can't get the authentication dialog - it just fails. I'm using TortoiseSVN, and I am able to get this login dialog for other repositories I'm using on other servers.

The autz file I'm editing is within the test-rep\conf folder, so perhaps I grasped the syntax incorrectly?

Stilgar.

Hi, sorry for the delay in replying i have been at a conference the past couple of days,

In your svnserve.conf file you need to add the line:
password-db = passwd

This should cause svn to ask for authentication when commiting, or however you have your authz setup.

Kind Regards,

mcuk_storm

Thanks, this did the trick. I also changed a setting there to prevent non-authenticated reads.

Now 2 last basic questions - sorry for making this last forever :)

1) When should I create a new repository and when should I just use sub-folders of the same repository? I'm thinking about separate projects with the same logins and groups, and several related projects. Would love to hear your opinion based on your experience.

2) svnadmin doesn't create the famous trunk/branch/tag folders - why is that? is it something I should create manually?

Stilgar.

Both of these are really up to how you want to implement your own structure,

1/ While this is entirely up to you and depends on the type of work you are doing, i would tend to suggest if you are able to seperate projects clearly then have seperate repositories for them, though you could group similar types of project within one repository if you wanted to. We tend to have a few repositories one for each of our main projects and a single one called small-dev-projects which we use to hold all our little bits that we dont feel warrant their own repository.

2/ the trunk/branch/tag folders have become the defacto standard as they are obvious and allow for most functionality that people require from a versioning system, this structure has nothing particularly to do with SVN itself. The short answer, yes you need to create this yourself.

There is nothing special about these folders, they are just folders. The contents of the tags folder is just copies of a folder in that repository at a particular revision.

The best advice i can give you besides a bit of research of what other people do is to setup a temporary repository and have a play, see how to do things. You are bound to mess things up a few times to start with so a test repository is always a good idea to play with things.

Kind Regards

mcuk_storm

Thanks for the info. Is there an easy way to share usernames, pwds and authentications between repositories? I guess what I'm looking for is a server-wide conf folder, or at least the ability to set one conf as the app default. Can this be done?

Stilgar.

Yes and no, you cant have a single root configuration file, but you can have a common passwd and authz file.

If you create a folder called conf in you root svn-repositories folder i.e. c:\svn-repositories\conf
In this folder place your existing passwd and authz files.

In you svnserve.conf file in each repository, have:
[general]
password-db = ..\..\conf\passwd
authz-db = ..\..\conf\authz

This will reference you global passwd and authz file so you will have the same user accounts for everyone.

In your authz file if you want everyone to have the same access to each repository you can just set a rule for  [/]
which will apply those permissions to the root of each repository, if you want to reference a specific repository then use the format:
[repos-name:/]

Kind Regards,

mcuk_storm