Prerequisites

• Enable HTTP support inside the admin VCS settings on your |RCE| instance
• You need to install the following tools on the machine that is running an instance of |RCE|: Apache HTTP Server and mod_dav_svn.

Using Ubuntu 14.04 Distribution as an example execute the following:

$ sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-svn

Once installed you need to enable dav_svn:

$ sudo a2enmod dav_svn
$ sudo a2enmod headers
$ sudo a2enmod authn_anon

Configuring Apache Setup

It is also recommended to run apache as the same user as |RCE|, otherwise permission issues could occur. To do this edit the /etc/apache2/envvars

export APACHE_RUN_USER=rhodecode
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=rhodecode

1. To configure Apache, create and edit a virtual hosts file, for example :file:`/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default.conf`. Below is an example how to use one with auto-generated config `mod_dav_svn.conf` from configured |RCE| instance.

<VirtualHost *:8090>
    ServerAdmin rhodecode-admin@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html
    ErrorLog ${'${APACHE_LOG_DIR}'}/error.log
    CustomLog ${'${APACHE_LOG_DIR}'}/access.log combined
    Include /home/user/.rccontrol/enterprise-1/mod_dav_svn.conf
</VirtualHost>

2. Go to the :menuselection:`Admin --> Settings --> VCS` page, and enable :guilabel:`Proxy Subversion HTTP requests`, and specify the :guilabel:`Subversion HTTP Server URL`.

3. Open the |RCE| configuration file, :file:`/home/{user}/.rccontrol/{instance-id}/rhodecode.ini`

4. Add the following configuration option in the [app:main] section if you don't have it yet.

   This enables mapping of the created |RCE| repo groups into special |svn| paths. Each time a new repository group is created, the system will update the template file and create new mapping. Apache web server needs to be reloaded to pick up the changes on this file. To do this, simply configure svn.proxy.reload_cmd inside the .ini file. Example configuration:

############################################################
### Subversion proxy support (mod_dav_svn)               ###
### Maps RhodeCode repo groups into SVN paths for Apache ###
############################################################
## Enable or disable the config file generation.
svn.proxy.generate_config = true
## Generate config file with `SVNListParentPath` set to `On`.
svn.proxy.list_parent_path = true
## Set location and file name of generated config file.
svn.proxy.config_file_path = %(here)s/mod_dav_svn.conf
## Used as a prefix to the <Location> block in the generated config file.
## In most cases it should be set to `/`.
svn.proxy.location_root = /
## Command to reload the mod dav svn configuration on change.
## Example: `/etc/init.d/apache2 reload`
svn.proxy.reload_cmd = /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
## If the timeout expires before the reload command finishes, the command will
## be killed. Setting it to zero means no timeout. Defaults to 10 seconds.
#svn.proxy.reload_timeout = 10

This would create a special template file called `mod_dav_svn.conf`. We used that file path in the apache config above inside the Include statement. It's also possible to manually generate the config from the :menuselection:`Admin --> Settings --> VCS` page by clicking a Generate Apache Config button.

5. Now only things left is to enable svn support, and generate the initial configuration.
   • Select Proxy subversion HTTP requests checkbox
   • Enter http://localhost:8090 into Subversion HTTP Server URL
   • Click the Generate Apache Config button.

This config will be automatically re-generated once an user-groups is added to properly map the additional paths generated.

Using |svn|

Once |svn| has been enabled on your instance, you can use it with the following examples. For more |svn| information, see the Subversion Red Book

# To clone a repository
svn checkout http://my-svn-server.example.com/my-svn-repo

# svn commit
svn commit