Comments on: Installing Subversion with Plesk 8.0/ CentOs 4.3 as Subdomain

By: Calle

Calle — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:01:08 +0000

I spent a whole lot of time tracking down why apache wouldn’t use my config for the svn.mysite.com/ location. I finally saw that plesk had already configured the directory (…/subdomains/svn/httpdocs) for that location so I just commented that out and now it work, yay!

Great job, thanks!

By: Benoit Pereira da silva

Benoit Pereira da silva — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:47:07 +0000

Thanks very much indeed for that clear and well documented work.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:00:59 +0000

Thanks SO much for this!!

I was using the mutple repo setup on plesk (knownhost), and found I have to use (in vhost.conf)

SVNParentPath /var/svnrepos

Instead of Svnpath

to avoid “Could not open the requested SVN filesystem”

By: Daniel Tome

Daniel Tome — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:36:41 +0000

Thanks for posting this process,

You should update the command: #yum mod_dav_svn
it should be: #yum install mod_dav_svn

cheers,

By: dylan oliver

dylan oliver — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:01:10 +0000

/var/svnrepo should not be world-writeable (777) unless you want any user to be able to delete it.

instead (assuming you’ve already executed the commands indicated in this tutorial):

chown -R apache.apache /var/svnrepo
chmod o-rwx /var/svnrepo

By: Conor McCarthy

Conor McCarthy — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:28:57 +0000

Matt, I got stuck at the step where you reconfigure the vhost. I was typing

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng –reconfigure-vhost –vhost-name=svn.yourdomain.com

and it didn’t work. After typing
/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng –reconfigure-vhost –vhost-name=yourdomain.com

it worked fine. So enter the whole domain at the end there, not just the sub domain.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:30:39 +0000

Hey, I cannot get this svn to work. when I go to svn.jnmedia.com, it doesn’t ask for username/pwd. I’ve done everything in your tutorial and it’s still not working. I don’t know what else to do. Please help.

By: runstream

runstream — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:18:43 +0000

Was just asking how to do this - thank you!

By: Dallas Freeman

Dallas Freeman — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:40:43 +0000

The vhost.conf also includes the location tags as well, they were removed out of my comment.

By: Dallas Freeman

Dallas Freeman — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:38:30 +0000

I’m getting an issue with configuration in the vhost.conf file. When I restart the web server I get two warnings
websrvmng: Service /etc/init.d/httpd failed to gracefully restart
websrvmng: Service /etc/init.d/httpd failed to gracefully restart

This issue doesn’t happen when I delete the file and restart the web server. My vhost.conf file contains the following:

DAV svn
SVNPath /var/www/vhosts/explodingbox.com/subdomains/svn/explodingbox
AuthType Basic
AuthName “Exploding Box Productions Subversion Repository”
AuthUserFile /var/www/vhosts/explodingbox.com/subdomains/svn/svn-auth-file
Require valid-user

I’ve double checked the locations of the repo and svn-auth-file and they are exact. I’ve tried a full restart of the system and no luck on that either.