On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 21:16, John wrote: > > > Does anyone have a good source for instructions on setting up > > > subversion with Fedora? If not, I don't mind presenting the steps I > > > took if people are willing to help. > > > > It is all here: > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/index.html > > I tried following it, thanks. I almost have it working. What I realized > before though, was that the instructions are geared more towards a > generic (for lack of a better word) linux installation. For example, > the manual tells you to configure /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf > but you don't really need to, since Fedora (with the subversion > installed via rpm) provides the file: /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf. > > It turns out that this file already has a lot of the required settings > included, so I was hoping that with Fedora, the required steps would > be streamlined. > > Well, I'm almost there. I can set things up so that I can either > access the repository anonymously (with full permissions or read-only), > or I can set it up so that I can access as a user with full permissions > and requiring a password. But I'm now working on trying to get > both going at once, i.e. anonymous with read-only and user with full > access after a password is supplied. It was definitely a learning > experience... To restrict write access to the repo use the following directive inside the Location directive (in subversion.conf): <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT> Now anyone can view the repo and check stuff out but will only be able to commit if they have a valid username/password. -- David Keen <zen46443@xxxxxxxxx>
