Set up SVN server on docker

docker_svn-server.md

SVN on docker!

Quick notes on setting up a lightweight SVN server that is accessible via http (WebDav) and the svn custom protocol (svn://).

credits to :

• https://medium.com/@elle.florio/the-svn-dockerization-84032e11d88d
• @primetheus's docker volume updates https://gist.github.com/primetheus/daa5907544d103b598e9bd7aab2e0307#file-docker_svn-server-md

Pre-reqs

• Docker (see 'Install Docker for Mac')
• SVN (should be installed on your Mac by default)

Steps

This guide uses a lightweight svn-server docker image called elleFlorio/svn-docker. To set up

• 1 ) Create an svn-root volume to hold your svn-server repos on your docker host

  $ docker volume create svn-root

• 2 ) Run the docker container and set your working directory to /home/svn

  $ docker run -dit --name svn-server -v svn-root:/home/svn -p 7443:80 -p 3960:3960 -w /home/svn elleflorio/svn-server

• 3 ) Configure a username and password to access http protocol

  $ docker exec -t svn-server htpasswd -b /etc/subversion/passwd svnadmin <password>

• 4 ) Verify that the svn services is up and showing 0 repos available

  $ svn info svn://localhost:3960/
  
  svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn://localhost:3960'
  svn: E210005: No repository found in 'svn://localhost:3960'

• 5 ) Log in to your svn server using URL: http://localhost:7443/svn. You should see an empty listing with "Collection of Repositories" string on top

• 6 ) Create a test svn repo using svnadmin command. verify repo exsits both in command line and web page

  $ docker exec -it svn-server svnadmin create Test

  $ docker exec -it svn-server ls -al Test
  
  total 16
  drwxr-xr-x   8 primetheus  staff  272 Jun  7 15:22 .
  drwxr-xr-x   3 primetheus  staff  102 Jun  7 15:22 ..
  -rw-r--r--   1 primetheus  staff  246 Jun  7 15:22 README.txt
  drwxr-xr-x   6 primetheus  staff  204 Jun  7 15:22 conf
  drwxr-sr-x  15 primetheus  staff  510 Jun  7 15:22 db
  -r--r--r--   1 primetheus  staff    2 Jun  7 15:22 format
  drwxr-xr-x  11 primetheus  staff  374 Jun  7 15:22 hooks
  drwxr-xr-x   4 primetheus  staff  136 Jun  7 15:22 locks

  $ svn info svn://localhost:3960/Test
  
  Path: Test
  URL: svn://localhost:3960/Test
  Relative URL: ^/
  Repository Root: svn://localhost:3960/Test
  Repository UUID: 626ee621-fc48-49e1-8733-3f850e997e67
  Revision: 0
  Node Kind: directory
  Last Changed Rev: 0
  Last Changed Date: 2017-06-07 15:22:54 -0500 (Wed, 07 Jun 2017)

Load test subversion repo

Let's load a test SVN repository, located here.

• Dump SVN repo to local Docker container

  $ docker exec -it svn-server sh -c "svnrdump dump https://svn.code.sf.net/p/ultrastardx/svn | gzip > /tmp/ultrastardx.dump.gz"

• Create new repo to host code

  $ docker exec -it svn-server svnadmin create ultrastardx

• Load in the SVN dump archive (make sure your dashes and quotes aren't funky here)

  $ docker exec -it svn-server sh -c "gunzip -c /tmp/ultrastardx.dump.gz | svnadmin load ultrastardx"

• Check to see that repo has been loaded properly

  $ svn info svn://localhost:3960/ultrastardx

Got 2 issues after doing first commit

• svn commit -m "first commit"
  Solution: docker exec -t svn-server sed -i "s/= r/= rw/g" /etc/subversion/subversion-access-control

• svn: E000013: Can't open file '/home/svn/Test/db/txn-current-lock': Permission denied
  Solution: docker exec svn-server chown -R apache:apache /home/svn/Test

@bipinacellere thank you !