Re: Web Hosting using subversion

On Oct 11, 2007, at 22:48, Nikhil Rasiwasia wrote:

> We are a small academic group and have our small website. It
> usually happens that we need to update that from time to time and
> multiple people have to do so. I installed subversion to tackle
> this problem, but I am confused as to how to host that website
> using subversion.
>
> The real question being, the copy of the website that is actually
> hosted, does it have to be a local copy somewhere

Yes, do this. Make a working copy on the server, and point your web
server at it.

> or I can direclty link it to the SVN repository so that if anyone
> commits the changes to the repository it is reflected on to the
> website. In the other case whats the solution to have real time
> update feedback? using a post-commit hook to update the hosted copy?

Exactly.

> Also how does it handle the dynamic contents of the website, say a
> hosted wiki?

Since it's just a local directory on the web server's hard drive,
this is handled exactly as any other local web site would be.

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Fri Oct 12 05:46:46 2007