Wednesday, July 3, 2013

How to get viewvc working with Apache httpd and Fedora and subversion (svn)


  1. Get subversion working with httpd first. (See http://muddyazian.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-to-start-subversion-repository-over.html)
  2. yum install viewvc viewvc-httpd
  3. Edit /etc/viewvc/viewvc.conf and modify the svn_roots and root_parents options.
  4. Edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and add in the following:

    <Directory /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/viewvc/bin/mod_python>
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
      AuthType Basic
      AuthName "Subversion repositories"
      AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-users
      Require valid-user
    </Directory>

    <Directory /usr/share/viewvc/templates/docroot>
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
    </Directory>

    ...

    Alias /viewvc-static "/usr/share/viewvc/templates/docroot/images"

    ...

    ScriptAlias /viewvc /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/viewvc/bin/cgi/viewvc.cgi
    ScriptAlias /query /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/viewvc/bin/cgi/query.cgi

  5. Restart the web server: /sbin/service httpd restart
  6. Go to http://localhost/viewvc
  7. If you haven't already done so, create the /etc/svn-auth-users file:

    htpasswd -cm /etc/svn-auth-users firstUsername
    New password:
    Re-type new password:
    Adding password for user firstUsername
You can test things out (sanity check) like this:

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/viewvc/bin/standalone.py -r /path/to/svn/repository/location

Then in firefox, go to http://localhost:49152/viewvc

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