Run Subversion server on OS X Server

Mark,

I am running ML Server on a MacMini updated from Lion Server - not a fresh install (though with all my custom Apache configurations blown to shreds by the upgrade it almost felt like a fresh install and took me quite a while to get everything working again… 😝)

Andreas

I also had significant problems getting all this working. Compiling my own binaries failed as I got the same error others were getting, and when I tried to use the pre-compiled version provided by Andreas I got an error about incorrect library versions.

Anyhow, my solution was simple in the end. I managed to recover the two missing .so files from a backup I had of my Lion server before I upgraded it. I added the those into the Apache extensions directory and that seemed to work.

Next up I had problems with the configuration itself. Previously I had made my own modifications to the /etc/apache2/ conf files. However it seems that Mountain Lion no longer uses these files. Whilst the original files still exist, it seems like all the new config files are in /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/

I found full instruction for configuring these files the "Lion" way here:

http://www.themacosxserveradmin.com/2011/01/lion-server-and-svn.html

After a few hours of hair pulling and cursing I finally have everything back up and running again.

I hope this helps someone.

Thanks S.Harvey,

I came across this solution but alas I can't get to my old module .so files. Started to search for these on web but no luck so far. Any advice on where I can get them since I can't get to an old backup?

--Jim

This is a strange, I'm not able to checkout files from subversion, but I'm able to see content via web browser.

Checkout operation gives me:

>>>svn co https://site/svn/repo1
Authentication realm: <https://site:443> UserWebDAV Gateway
Password for 'someUser': 
svn: access to 'https://site/svn/repo1' forbidden

I've created also post on http://stackoverflow.com:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12020382/setting-up-subversion-server-on-mac- os-mountain-lion-have-access-via-browser-b

Do you know why could it be than I have access via web, but do not have it by checking out sources ?

The following approach seems to be successful on my upgraded Mountain Lion:

1) Download and extract the SVN sources from subversion.apache.org:

subversion-1.6.18.tar.bz2

subversion-deps-1.6.18.tar.bz2

2) Configure SVN with the following command

./configure

3) Compile SVN:

make

4) Copy the two module sources into apache's directory:

sudo cp subversion/mod_authz_svn/.libs/mod_authz_svn.so /usr/libexec/apache2/

sudo cp subversion/mod_dav_svn/.libs/mod_dav_svn.so /usr/libexec/apache2/

I uploaded the compiled modules to my server and you can grab them from there (I obviously don't take any responsibility if this doesn't work for you…)

http://minitu.es/files/ML_Server/mod_authz_svn.so

http://minitu.es/files/ML_Server/mod_dav_svn.so

I use my server in combination with LDAP Auth and my config is:

LoadModule dav_svn_module libexec/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so

LoadModule authz_svn_module libexec/apache2/mod_authz_svn.so

<Location "/svn">

DAV svn

SVNParentPath "/Volumes/HDD.1.0/ps/svn/repos/"

AuthzSVNAccessFile "/Volumes/HDD.1.0/ps/svn/repos/s4q/conf/authz"

AuthType Basic

AuthName "subversion"

Require valid-user

</Location>

Which is located in /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/http-subversion.conf

In /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/httpd_server.app.conf Include this line at the end:

Include /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/http-subversion.conf

If you want access by any site, of use the site's config that you want to handle your svn entry point.

Thanks for inspiration:

- Andreas:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4181495?start=15&tstart=0

- janhellevik:

http://janhellevik.com/?tag=subversion

- Thom DeCarlo:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11712294/os-x-10-8-is-missing-mod-svn-so-libr aries

Didn't have success in it.

After installing old version of subversion apache stoped to work completelly.

I did use the same steps as Putubrutus mentioned but no any luck.

I gave up and found UberSVN. UberSVN installed and setup without issue. Had to convert my older format, but now its all the latest and greatest. Its a great product and got us back going without issue on 10.8.1 Server.

--Jim

Hi folks!

after an hour or so strugling with this problem, I think I found the solution:

1.- Download subversion-1.6.16 from here http://archive.apache.org/dist/subversion/

2.- Configure and build it like this:

./configure --without-berkeley-db --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-apr=/usr/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/usr/bin/apr-1-config

make

3.- Copy the resulting libs to the libexec folder:

sudo cp subversion/mod_authz_svn/.libs/mod_authz_svn.so subversion/mod_dav_svn/.libs/mod_dav_svn.so /usr/libexec/apache2/

Now try to relaunch your apache server. You may need to adjust a bit your httpd.conf. I had to move my svn config file:

sudo mv /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-subversion.conf /etc/apache2/other/

I had run into the problems listed above (the one about the lib version conflict), so I figured out I needed an older version. Now I have my SVN server running again on my mac with mountain lion.

Good luck!

Alfonso

I have configured everything in my Lion. After installing Mountain Lion everything is gone.

The following steps resolved my svn issue 🙂

1. Download latest subversion subversion-1.7.6 source code from http://subversion.apache.org/download/ (Make sure to download the tar ball)

2. Extract the tar file using tar -xzvf subversion-1.7.6.tar.bz2

3. Goto subversion-1.7.6 and run ./configure

4. make

5. sudo make install

This copies .so files to /usr/libexec/apache2 dir.

6. Restart apache sudo apachectl restart

Now the svn url should work.

John

地址: http://archive.apache.org/dist/apr/

分别下载了 apr-1.4.5.tar.gz 和 apr-util-1.3.12.tar.gz

解压安装

$ cd ../apr-1.4.5/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

$ cd ../apr-util-1.3.12

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-apr=/usr/bin/apr-1-config --

with-apr-util=/usr/local/apr/bin/apu-1-config

make
sudo make install

and try again!