I just installed a fresh copy of Leopard Server on a Mac Pro. I am
have been using Linux for the past 6 years but am exploring moving
some things over to Mac OS X Server. The first thing I am trying to
do is set up subversion on the native apache so I can use it as my
primary version control server. It was easy of course to enable the
correct modules, but unless I am missing something big there is no way
to enable or configure a specific svn repository inside of Server
Admin. That is fine, I am used to configuring apache manually
anyway. But I ran into lots of problems trying to edit the config
files and not having my settings get overwritten any time Server Admin
updated it's configuration.
At the top of httpd.conf it has the following comments:
#### Feel free to edit this; the Server Admin app also edits this file
but will
#### respect your changes unless noted below. See also ReadMe.txt.
I didn't see anything "noted below" that gave me any clue as to what
it would and would not respect. ReadMe.txt wasn't very helpful
either. But I tried configuring anyway hoping it was really smart
enough to respect my edits. So I tried adding the following to the
bottom of httpd.conf
<Location "/svn">
<Limit GET HEAD OPTIONS CONNECT POST PROPFIND PUT DELETE
PROPPATCH MKCOL COPY MOVE LOCK UNLOCK>
Require user adminusername
</Limit>
AuthType Digest
AuthName "Subversion Realm"
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /var/svn
</Location>
This worked great if I manually restarted apache just after editing.
But as soon as I went back to Server Admin it preserved everything
except it changed "DAV svn" to "DAV Off".
I don't really care how I get it configured. I just want to get my
subversion server running. Apple clearly bundled in all the
appropriate modules needed for subversion and made it easy to enable
them so I have been surprised that I have had such a hard time finding
any info on how to get it configured. I am afraid I am missing
something really obvious. Are there some general rules on how to
separate your stuff out from the Server Admin stuff? Is there some
other way to configure subversion that I am just not aware of?
I am going to try using an include now but even if that works I am
afraid this isn't the first time I'm going to need to do something the
the conf files that aren't in the gui and an include might not always
be the answer.
Thanks ahead of time to anyone that can help me out here.
Rick
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