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$ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.5.22.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf libtool-1.5.22.tar.gz
$ cd libtool-1.5.22
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
Make sure you have a newish version of autoconf
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$ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.61.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf autoconf-2.61.tar.gz
$ cd autoconf-2.61
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
Install BerkeleyDB
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$ wget http://downloads.sleepycat.com/db-4.4.20.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf db-4.4.20.tar.gz
$ cd db-4.4.20/build_unix/
$ ../dist/configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo /sbin/ldconfig
Install Python
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$ wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5.tgz
$ tar xvzf Python-2.5.tgz
$ cd Python-2.5
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
Make sure we are using the right python executable
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$ sudo rm -Rf /usr/bin/python
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/python /usr/bin/python
$ sudo /sbin/ldconfig
Install Swig
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$ wget http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/swig/swig-1.3.28.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf swig-1.3.28.tar.gz
$ cd swig-1.3.28
$ ./configure --with-python= /usr/local/bin/python
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ /sbin/ldconfig
Install Apache
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$ wget http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.2.4.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf httpd-2.2.4.tar.gz
$ cd httpd-2.2.4
$ cd srclib/
$ rm -Rf apr/*
$ svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr/branches/1.2.x apr
$ rm -Rf apr-util/*
$ svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr-util/branches/1.2.x apr-util
$ cd ../
$ ./buildconf
$ sudo echo '/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.4/lib/' >> /etc/ld.so.conf
$ sudo /sbin/ldconfig
$ ./configure \
--enable-dav= shared \
--enable-dav_fs= shared \
--enable-expires= shared \
--enable-deflate= shared \
--enable-rewrite= shared \
--disable-userdir \
--enable-maintainer-mode \
--with-dbm= db4 \
--with-berkeley-db \
--prefix= /usr/local/apache-2.2.4
$ make
$ sudo make install
Install Subversion
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$ wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.4.0.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf subversion-1.4.0.tar.gz
$ cd subversion-1.4.0
$ mkdir apr
$ svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr/branches/1.2.x apr/
$ mkdir apr-util
$ svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr-util/branches/1.2.x apr-util/
$ ./autogen.sh
$ make clean
$ ./configure \
--with-apxs= /usr/local/apache-2.2.4/bin/apxs \\
--with-apr= /usr/local/apache-2.2.4/bin/apr-1-config \
--with-apr-util= /usr/local/apache-2.2.4/bin/apu-1-config \
--with-berkeley-db= /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.4 \
--enable-swig-bindings= python \
--with-zlib \
--with-swig= /usr/local
Before compiling, make sure the makefile python stuff is pointing to the right place
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$ sed -ri "s|PYTHON = /usr/bin/python2|PYTHON = /usr/local/bin/python|" Makefile
$ sed -ri "s|/usr/include/python2.2|/usr/local/include/python2.5|" Makefile
$ sed -ri "s|SVN_APR_LIBS = /usr/local/apache-2.2.4/lib/libapr-1.la -luuid -lrt -lcrypt -lpthread -ldl|SVN_APR_LIBS = /usr/local/apache-2.2.4/lib/libapr-1.la -luuid -lrt -lcrypt -lpthread -ldl -L/usr/kerberos/lib -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err -lexpat|" Makefile
The extra SVN_APR_LIBS arguments (-L/usr/kerberos/lib -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err -lexpat) were obtained using the output of :
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The python and swig-py stuff isn’t really necessary unless you want to run Trac , but it doesn’t hurt to include it now just in case.
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$ make
$ sudo cp ./subversion/mod_dav_svn/mod_dav_svn.la /usr/local/apache-2.2.4/modules/
$ sudo cp ./subversion/mod_dav_svn/.libs/mod_dav_svn.so /usr/local/apache-2.2.4/modules/
$ sudo cp ./subversion/mod_authz_svn/mod_authz_svn.la /usr/local/apache-2.2.4/modules/
$ sudo cp ./subversion/mod_authz_svn/.libs/mod_authz_svn.so /usr/local/apache-2.2.4/modules/
$ sudo make install
$ make swig-py
$ sudo make install-swig-py
$ sudo /sbin/ldconfig
Make user & group
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$ sudo /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 56 svn
$ sudo /usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/svn/ -ppassword -g svn -u 56 svn
$ sudo install -d -m0755 -o svn -g svn /home/svn/repositories
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$ sudo svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /home/svn/repositories/my_project
$ sudo chown -R svn:svn /home/svn/repositories/my_project
$ sudo chmod -R g+w /home/svn/repositories/my_project
$ sudo chmod g+s /home/svn/repositories/my_project/db
Configure Apache -
add something like the following to httpd.conf:
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NameVirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80
<virtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80>
DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache-2.2.4/htdocs/
ServerName svn.domain.name.here
<directory "/usr/local/apache-2.2.4/htdocs/" >
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</directory>
<location />
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /home/svn/repositories
SVNListParentPath on
SVNPathAuthz off
AuthType Basic
AuthName "svn.domain.name.here"
AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache-2.2.4/passwd/passwords
Require valid-user
</location>
</virtualHost>
Swap the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with your server’s IP address, and the svn.domain.name.here with your domain.
Also make sure that httpd.conf is setup to run apache as the ‘svn’ user.
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$ sudo ./bin/htpasswd -c /usr/local/apache-2.2.4/passwd/passwords new_user_name
Where new_user_name is the name of the user you want to create.
