Re: Manually configuring apache in Leopard Server

Subject: Re: Manually configuring apache in Leopard Server

From: David Haines <email@hidden>

Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:03:24 -0500

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On Nov 15, 2007, at 11:30 PM, Rick Gigger wrote:

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.

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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".

Generally any edit by hand is a one-way trip. In some cases with some services (eg: postfix) in past iterations of OS X Server, one's manual edits have on some occassions been preserved, but it's always been a bit of a crapshoot.

You can safely use the admin GUI tools to stop and start services that you've manually configured, but that's about it. And besides, just use:

serveradmin

eg:

sudo serveradmin stop web

or "start web"

via shell acess. man serveradmin for more

and you can still use: apachectl restart (apachectl configtest , etc.) after making a manual edit.

As for apache + svn in 10.5 server, you might enjoy the following (came across it just recently):

http://web.mac.com/williamvanetten/Leopard/Leopard_Blog/Entries/2007/11/8_Configuring_a_Secure_Subversion_Server.html

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