Lou,
im almost glad to here you wont be hosting your proprietary source at a 3rd party site;
the thought of that gives me the shivers.
anyways; i recommend you host subversion on a system with redundant hard disks in
case one of them is to fail.
that being said, i see youve gone with ubuntu. if youre going to use the system strictly
as a server i might recommend debian in its stead. after all ubuntu is a derivative of
debian and it has lots and lots of stuff, primarily intended for desktop audiences.
ubuntu is another one of those things that gives me the shivers; but thats a matter of
personal preference :)
regarding the installation process; there is some graphical installer, synaptic, i believe.
you can use that to install everything, but i recommend you use the underlying system.
apt-get is the tool carried over from debian; it has a command line interface. you can
search for packages with
apt-cachce search
and install them with
apt-get install
typically, its recommended to run
apt-get -s install
first which will just list what all will be installed along with the program you want.
i would probly install subversion first and test it out; then get apache installed and
configure DAV and SSL.
here is a nice article <http://http:/gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Apache2_with_subversion_SVN_and_DAV> i used to get my system up (yes i run gentoo :), but it should still
be helpful).
if you havent used debian before, its worth a try; the installer is very straightforward and
all youll have at the end of the day is the cli and your server software, which will make
for a nice lean system.
-nathan
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Because of this topic I raise the idea/suggestion of making a how-to that describes best practise to set up a clean linux server / windows server to host your own svn-repo(s).
I support Nathan in using a distribution that is more server oriented. Ubuntu / Kubuntu is more oriented towards the desktop as I see it... (of course I might be wrong, and so I excuse my ignorance in before hand)
Best
Trond
Received on Thu Oct 18 11:11:44 2007