You’ll find quite a lot of guides showing you how to install an svn server on your Mac OS X machine. But most of them don’t tell you, that Mac OS X ships with a fully functional svn system. This is how you configure it.
Start of by opening Terminal and creating a new folder holding your future svn repositories:
sudo mkdir /usr/local/svn
Make sure you change the folder’s owner to “www” in order to make it accesable through apache:
sudo chown -R www:www /usr/local/svn
Now create a new repository:
sudo svnserve create /user/local/svn/foo
where foo is your repository’s name.
Make sure, apache is running by checking your system preferences and enabling web sharing.
Now create a new file named svn.conf and place it in /etc/apache2/other. Type the following into the file:
LoadModule dav_svn_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so <Location /svn> DAV svn SVNParentPath /usr/local/svn </Location>
Restart apache by typing
sudo apachectl graceful
into your terminal. And you’re ready and set. Access your repository through http://localhost/svn.
Hi,
after typing http://localhost/svn i got
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /svn on this server.
Can you help me what the reason is?
Accessing http://localhot/svn through your Browser won’t work, unless you use a browser based subversion tool like webSVN. Use a subversion client software or a built-in subversion client for eclipse (or whatever IDE you’re using) to access and browse the subversion repository.
On OSX Snow Leopard server there doesn’t appear to be a /usr/local directory what am I missing?
I can not verify if /usr/local on Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server exists or not, because I do not have access to a machine running Snow Leopard Server. But I would certainly be suprised, if it did not exist.
If not, choose a different directory for storing your repositories.
On a fresh install of OS X Snow Leopard Server there is no /usr/local directory:
macminiserv04:~ me$ cd /usr
macminiserv04:usr me$ ls -a
. X11 bin libexec share
.. X11R6 lib sbin standalone
But you can just create it and then use the rest of this excellent guide
Well, until you try and do this:
macminiserv04:svn me$ sudo svnserve create /usr/local/svn/my_repository
Type 'svnserve --help' for usage.
You’ll have to use:
macminiserv04:svn me$ sudo svnadmin create /usr/local/svn/my_repository
After those mods, everything is just dandy
Thanks man, that really helped! But was a bit difficult for me, anyway it work! Thumbs Up!