Re: SVNServe and firewalls

On Apr 23, 2005, at 10:44 AM, Robert Murphy wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My company is trying to share a repository that is hosted using
> svnserve. Unfortunately our partners have a rather restrictive
> firewall and are unable to retrieve or send updates to the repo. We
> tried to be clever hand have svnserve use port 80 and have it bind to
> a specific host name but to no avail. I have seen previous posts
> concerning firewalls but those dealt with the Apache module and not
> the stand alone server. Any ideas would be appreciated.
>

Set up an apache server with SSL, in addition to your svnserve.
https:// tends to go through firewalls without a hitch.

Another option is to give system accounts to your partners, and let
them in via svn+ssh://. Or have them set up an ssh tunnel (ssh -L),
and run normal svn:// protocol over the tunnel.

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Received on Sat Apr 23 18:01:28 2005