Alex Le’s Blog

Until recently I have decided to setup a local SVN repository on my computer, which runs Windows XP pro. Setting up SVN with Apache is the best way to access a SVN repository but the thing is, my computer has also IIS installed for ASP.NET development. Normally I have XAMPP installed and have to switch start/ stop Apache and IIS manually whenever I need to do something in either ASP.NET or PHP. To clarify, I do have PHP 5.x setup for IIS but Just didn’t bother to fix the session file permission issues of IIS; I’d rather just switch to the working Apache installation instead using the XAMPP control panel.

I started by installing the [[http://svn1clicksetup.tigris.org/|SVN1clickSetup]]. The installation was painless, however, I needed to restart the service to change some configurations. To register svnserve.exe to run as a serice again, I used this full command:


I:\Program Files\Subversion\bin\svnservice -install -d --listen-port 3690 --listen-host 0.0.0.0 -r K:\svnrepos


The -d param enables svnserve to run as a daemon. We specify the list-host of SVNServe.exe to be 0.0.0.0, which means it will bind to any IP available to the system. The -r specifies which folder to serve as the SVN repository. What left was opening up the 3690 port on the router and have the requests for the SVN service on this port routed to my box. Done!

* If you run `svnservice -debug` and see the `RegQueryValueEx failed with error 0, type 1`, it means that SVNService has successfully registered the SVNServe to run as a service. In fact, `RegQueryValueEx failed with error 0` is not an error or a failure.

* In case you have already run the above svnservice to register the SVNserve as a service but still cannot access the repository, you may have to start the SVNService manually by going through Start > Run > services.msc. Find the service called SVNService and start it. Also switch its Startup Type to Automatic so that SVNService is started on start up.

Cheers!