RE: HOWTO: Installing ViewCVS with Subversion?

>> From: Kris Goss [mailto:kris@seedindustries.com]
>> ... Subversion with Apache on Windows ... setup ViewCVS

I did this a couple of months ago, I can probably answer specific questions but I haven't written it up extensively. I did post the following instructions on this list (I've slightly edited since) There was also some discussion on this list in August, look in the archives.

- Walter

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*These instructions were for Subversion 0.25 - YMMV*

Check your versions of Subversion, the svn Python bindings and Python match.
I was running Subversion 0.25.0, svn-win32-0.25.0_python.zip (from files section on tigris.org, same dir
as the svn-0.25.0-setup.exe), which was compiled against Python 2.2 NOT 2.3. This was my biggest initial problem. I haven't looked to see what versions required for 0.31 etc

1. Apache 2.0.47 from httpd.apache.org

2. Python for Windows VERSION 2.2!!
Get Python-2.2.3.exe from http://www.python.org/2.2.3/
Installed in c:\program files\python2.2
win32all-154.exe (ie the version that matches 2.2, -155 is for python
2.3) from a link on the same page, and install that

2b. Unpack the subversion-python zip file into c:\program files\Python2.2\lib (creating
...\Python2.2\lib\libsvn and ...\Python2.2\lib\svn directories)

3. mod_python for Apache:
mod_python-3.0.3.win32.exe from http://www.modpython.org/ Follow normal
instructions to install.

4. You must get the HEAD of ViewCVS. ViewCVS 0.9.2 does not have the
Subversion support in it.
I can't remember the CVS command for this perhaps:

        C:\temp\> cvs -d
:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/viewcvs co viewcvs

5. Run the viewcvs-install program
      C:\temp\viewcvs\> python viewcvs-install

  and follow the prompts

I installed to C:\webroot\viewcvs-1.0-dev\

6. Modify apache's httpd.conf to include:

LoadModule python_module modules/mod_python.so

ScriptAlias /viewcvs
"c:/webroot/viewcvs-1.0-dev/www/mod_python/viewcvs.py"
<location /viewcvs>
    AddHandler python-program .py
    PythonPath "[r'c:\\webroot\\viewcvs-1.0-dev\\lib']+sys.path"
    PythonHandler apache
    PythonDebug On
</location>

7. Modify viewcvs.conf

[general]
svn_parent_path = //moria/svnrepos
# This is a share on my server Moria; or use c:\subversion\repos or
whatever...
default_root = sandpit

8. You may need to ensure the user account that is running Apache has
appropriate rights to the repository. I needed to change this because my
ViewCVS is on a different box to Subversion, and the by default Apache
runs under the local system account, which can't access across the
network. If your repository is on the same machine as the web server
then LocalSystem should be fine.

Clear as mud? I've probably forgotten something.

For syntax-aware colour coding, you need to do a bit more

1. go to http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html and start
downloading all the binaries.

I got this lot:
diffutils-2.8.1-3-bin.zip
enscript-1.6.3-9-bin.zip
enscript-1.6.3-9-doc.zip
gzip-1.2.4-bin.zip
libiconv-1.8-1-bin.zip
libintl-0.11.5-2-bin.zip
sed-4.0.7-bin.zip
zlib-1.1.4-1-bin.zip

I'm not sure if it is *all* needed.

Install into C:\gnuwin32\, and have c:\gnuwin32\bin in the PATH
environment variable. (You might be able to get it working with explicit
pathing, but.. good luck).

Then in viewcvs.conf set use_enscript = 1 and things should be sweet.

I haven't got cvsgraph or DIFFs working. Yet. One of the reasons this
hasn't gone to production.

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Received on Mon Oct 13 02:20:54 2003