docs: update SVN configuration docs

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Marcin Kuzminski 2016-08-23 12:03:01 +02:00
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|svn| With Write Over HTTP
--------------------------
To use |svn| with write access, the currently supported method is over HTTP.
This requires you to configure your local machine so that it can access your
|RCE| instance.
To use |svn| with read/write support over the |svn| protocol, you have to
configure HTTP |svn| backend.
Prerequisites
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Enable lab setting on your |RCE| instance, see :ref:`lab-settings`.
- You need to install the following tools on your local machine: ``Apache`` and
``mod_dav_svn``. Use the following Ubuntu as an example.
- Enable HTTP support inside labs setting on your |RCE| instance,
see :ref:`lab-settings`.
- You need to install the following tools on the machine that is running an
instance of |RCE|:
``Apache HTTP Server`` and
``mod_dav_svn``.
Using Ubuntu Distribution as an example you can run:
.. code-block:: bash
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It is recommended to run Apache on a port other than 80, due to possible
conflicts with other HTTP servers like nginx. To do this, set the
``Listen`` parameter in the ``/etc/apache2/ports.conf`` file, for example
``Listen 8090``
``Listen 8090``.
It is also recommended to run apache as the same user as |RCE|, otherwise
permission issues could occur. To do this edit the ``/etc/apache2/envvars``
.. warning::
Make sure your Apache instance which runs the mod_dav_svn module is
only accessible by RhodeCode. Otherwise everyone is able to browse
the repositories or run subversion operations (checkout/commit/etc.).
It is also recommended to run apache as the same user as |RCE|, otherwise
permission issues could occur. To do this edit the ``/etc/apache2/envvars``
.. code-block:: apache
export APACHE_RUN_USER=ubuntu
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=ubuntu
export APACHE_RUN_USER=rhodecode
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=rhodecode
1. To configure Apache, create and edit a virtual hosts file, for example
:file:`/etc/apache2/sites-available/default.conf`, or create another
virtual hosts file and add a location section inside the
``<VirtualHost>`` section.
:file:`/etc/apache2/sites-available/default.conf`. Below is an example
how to use one with auto-generated config ```mod_dav_svn.conf```
from configured |RCE| instance.
.. code-block:: apache
<Location />
DAV svn
# Must be explicit path, relative not supported
SVNParentPath /PATH/TO/REPOSITORIES
SVNListParentPath On
Allow from all
Order allow,deny
</Location>
<VirtualHost *:8080>
ServerAdmin rhodecode-admin@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ErrorLog ${'${APACHE_LOG_DIR}'}/error.log
CustomLog ${'${APACHE_LOG_DIR}'}/access.log combined
Include /home/user/.rccontrol/enterprise-1/mod_dav_svn.conf
</VirtualHost>
.. note::
Once configured, check that you can see the list of repositories on your
|RCE| instance.
2. Go to the :menuselection:`Admin --> Settings --> Labs` page, and
enable :guilabel:`Proxy Subversion HTTP requests`, and specify the
:guilabel:`Subversion HTTP Server URL`.
3. Open the |RCE| configuration file,
:file:`/home/{user}/.rccontrol/{instance-id}/rhodecode.ini`
4. Add the following configuration option in the ``[app:main]``
section if you don't have it yet.
This enable mapping of created |RCE| repo groups into special |svn| paths.
Each time a new repository group will be created the system will update
the template file, and create new mapping. Apache web server needs to be
reloaded to pick up the changes on this file.
It's recommended to add reload into a crontab so the changes can be picked
automatically once someone creates an repository group inside RhodeCode.
.. code-block:: ini
##############################################
### Subversion proxy support (mod_dav_svn) ###
##############################################
## Enable or disable the config file generation.
svn.proxy.generate_config = true
## Generate config file with `SVNListParentPath` set to `On`.
svn.proxy.list_parent_path = true
## Set location and file name of generated config file.
svn.proxy.config_file_path = %(here)s/mod_dav_svn.conf
## File system path to the directory containing the repositories served by
## RhodeCode.
svn.proxy.parent_path_root = /path/to/repo_store
## Used as a prefix to the <Location> block in the generated config file. In
## most cases it should be set to `/`.
svn.proxy.location_root = /
This would create a special template file called ```mod_dav_svn.conf```. We
used that file path in the apache config above inside the Include statement.
Using |svn|
^^^^^^^^^^^