Redmine and SVN

It seems that there may be more needed to make the SVN usable by clients.  I was following this but got stuck.  The first long command doesnt work - saying that aptitude is an unknown command.  Of the next thee things to do, only the first one works.  Without these, Im pretty sure the rest of the proceedure is doomed to fail.  At this junture - I seem well and truly stuck.

When I try to commit into a svn repos, I have an authorization failed error.

$ svn mkdir svn://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/svn/helloworld/test -m "test" --username=sebastienj
svn: Authorization failed

I already added an admin user to the svn project throught redmine but there is still the problem.

I can't also find the svn apache configuration. It's not in /etc/apache2 folder.

Anybody has an idea ?

Thanks.

I personally don't want to manually enter in every User/Pass for svn access.  Namely because the password is plain text (and would be a lot cooler and more efficient if access can be controlled through redmine).

I have tried http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/Repositories_access_control_with_apa...

but the svn apache config file isn't there.  I tried making a new conf file to see if it would work, but does not.  Would be great if someone can point me in the right direction.

So I followed the instructions on http://www.redmine.org/wiki/1/HowTo_Automate_repository_creation but I still don't get repos auto created when the project is created.

Here is the cron job I used...

ruby /var/www/railsapp/extra/svn/reposman.rb --redmine localhost --svn-dir /srv/repos/svn --owner www-data --url file:///srv/repos/svn/ >> /var/log/reposman.log

Enable WS is checked...

www-data is owner of /srv/repos/svn

What am I missing?

I was reading to see if this has been fixed in the distribution - or if these extra steps still need to be done afterwards?  I sure hope its been fixed.  :)

I finaly had time to check the latest release - what a wonderful distribution!

Sadly, the repositories are still not created automatically - the root concern of this thread still exists.  Has anyone a solution? I imagine a cron task would be the simplest way - I think thats how other distributions do it - but I dont know where to begin.

The plugin works to a point, but the SVN never show up in redmine webui.  This system is perfect - so close to be usable. Ill keep my fingers crossed that someone smarter than me will fix it.

I see that me and many other ppl have problem with the subversion/git auto create. It looks like redmine is a very good SCM but it's to bad that this for me very critical part dosn't work out of the box in this apliance.

What I can see is that the hallo world example dosn't work if you try to connect from outside the webui like tortoiseSVN (svn://...). 

I did use the manual svnadmin create myproject and then connect it to my project and it worked kinda. But then I have the user problem when I try to connect via tortoiseSVN and put in alot of users in a password file instead of useing redmines user database was not an option. 

I did look at the link above that show you have to get it automated with redmine users but I had very hard to follow it becouse they never say where the files are located. Maybe that tutorial with a cron job is the best but it was at least for me to hard to follow. 

Will there be an updated version and if yes, is this something that will be fixed or do we need todo alot of manual steps to get things working?

Greetings all,

I've just joined the svn sufferers club :-(

The Redmine appliance itself looks nice, but it does not seem to be integrated with svn!

So I've just set up the svnserve in the very simple way, as explained in The SVN Book.

Edited  /srv/repos/<repo path>/conf/authz and passwd files. Entered svn user names and passwords manually. These can be different from Redmine credentials, but svn clients woud cache the repo URL with credentials anyway, they do not know a thing about the Redmine web interface.

Now I am able to access the demo svn project by URL: svn://<server>/svn/helloworld/trunk

It is obviously not perfect  - but much, much  better than nothing.

A question: the demo helloworld repo is defined with file:// protocol, while users obviously will access it thru svn:// Is this ok?  Should it be set to svn://localhost something?

Regards,

-- pa

I have been trying some more and get it all working so I better descibe it here befoure I forget how I did it. 

Hint: I prefer to use filezilla or some other FTP program when you do all the editing in files, one is that the key you generate, if it is a big i or a small L was impossible to see. And it's alot faster to work with too. Although you can edit from the command line (using nano or vim - both already installed in TKL). Or you could use the text editor/file manager built into Webmin. (Personal preference really).

I did the cron job version, I rather see the plugin becouse then you can create the repository directly and don't need to wait for the cron job todo his work. You never know when it will be, ether way you don't get the users from Redmine but I get that to work also.

Let's start with cron job, first you need to Enable WS in Adminstration -> Settings -> Repository then press Generate key to get a key to your WS. Then I created a file (I call mine redmine) and put it in /etc/cron.d/ directory. In this file I put 

10 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/ruby /var/www/railsapp/extra/svn/reposman.rb --redmine localhost --svn-dir /srv/repos/svn --owner www-data --url file:///srv/repos/svn --key=********** >> /var/log/reposman.log  

don't forget to put in your generated key in your file. I don't bother with WS security but if you want todo that you can just check http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/HowTo_Automate_repository_creation there how you do it. But now you should get a repository auto generated after a while when you create a project.

Now get the users from Redmine database. There might be some error here but I think it should be all in there.

First run

apt-get update
apt-get install libapache2-svn libapache-dbi-perl libapache2-mod-perl2 libdbd-mysql-perl 

and then run

a2enmod dav
a2enmod dav_svn # if you want to use svn
a2enmod perl

to check that all is enabled.

Then you need to link Redmine.pm to Apache. Go to

cd /usr/lib/perl5/Apache/ 
ln /var/www/railsapp/extra/svn/Redmine.pm 

or you can copy this file to this directory. Do what you feel is the best.

After this you need to create a file and upload it to /etc/apache2/conf.d/ I have modified this so it works for turnkeylinux. You need to put in your mysql root password that you selected when you created the VM machine, and you need to change to your VM ip. (Copy the text here to your file)

# /svn location for users
PerlLoadModule Apache::Redmine

<Location /svn>
 DAV svn
 SVNParentPath "/srv/repos/svn" 
 Order deny,allow
 Deny from all
 Satisfy any

 PerlAccessHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::access_handler
 PerlAuthenHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::authen_handler
 AuthType Basic
 AuthName "Redmine SVN Repository" 

 #read-only access    
 <Limit GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
Require valid-user
Allow from 127.0.0.1
Allow from 192.168.0.109 # CHANGE TO YOUR VM IP
Satisfy any
 </Limit>

 # write access
 <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
   Require valid-user
 </LimitExcept>

 ## for mysql
 RedmineDSN "DBI:mysql:database=railsapp_production;host=localhost" 
 ## for postgres
 # RedmineDSN "DBI:Pg:dbname=databasename;host=my.db.server" 
 ## for SQLite3
 # RedmineDSN "DBI:SQLite:dbname=database.db" 

 RedmineDbUser "root" 
 RedmineDbPass "*****" # CHANGE TO YOUR PASSWORD 
</Location>

When you have done all this you only need to restart your VM and everything should work now. You should connect via http://your.vm.ip/svn/myproject because svn:// don't work with users, only read access from that one, or at least I only get read to work from that one but everything work with http://. 

I think this is very little effort to get this to work in next version of TKL Redmine applience so I hope dev see this and do something about it. I use root user in mysql and it whould be better to use redmine user but I didn't know the password that's why I use root instead (I'm lazy with stuff like this), but it should be easy to fix for them. This work only for svn also and I don't use git so I won't bother to look at it. But you can check out http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Repositories_access_control_with_apache_mod_dav_svn_and_mod_perl

to get it work, guess you should re-write it so you don't need to use /git and /git-private directory. Instead get the same behavior as svn. I don't think it's that diffecult to get it like that. 

I have change my /srv/repos/svn owner to root:www-data but I don't think this is needed. Buf if everything fails you can test this.

I hope this is so simple so everyone can use it and I think you can create all files in your host OS and then use filezilla or other FTP and upload the files. So you don't need to work in the linux consol at all. The only part you need to access your VM consol is if you want todo a link instead of copy the file. Good luck all out there.

Hey Saul,

You can use what you like to upload and edit the files. It was just something I found out. But as I said in my last post, I'm kinda lazy and use stuff I'm used to. So pick what feels best for you. 

If there are some admin here that can fix my last post I would be very happy.

Hi Jeremy,

yea the extended hint was good. What I needed help to change was the code block that get screwed up, where it say (Copy the text here to your file) down and included to </Location> so ppl easier can just copy and past without any problem.

thx

Thx alot, great work

oops, looks like the file can be named anything!

So everything seems to be working but then I ran into a gotcha. LDAP users cannot authenticate to the repos. I tested a local user and was able to authenticate but any users who are setup as LDAP cannot. Authentication into the redmine webapp works as expected with both local and LDAP. Any ideas on how to make this work? We are so close to using this turnkey, but LDAP authentication is a must!

Success!

LDAP is now working for both the redmine webUI and subversion.

I followed the instructions from Ghost and then ran:

apt-get install libauthen-simple-ldap-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl