• This tutorial is about using native Redmine accounts for Subversion repository access.
• Useful links
  • Redmine
  • Subversion
  • Repository acces control with Apache, mod_dav, svn and mod_perl

• Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny, Apache2, MySQL5, Redmine 0.8

  koala:~# cat /etc/issue
  Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 \n \l
  
  koala:~# uname -a
  Linux koala 2.6.26-1-openvz-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 19:02:24 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  
  koala:~# apache2 -v
  Server version: Apache/2.2.9 (Debian)
  Server built:   Jul 14 2009 20:44:04
  
  koala:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled# mysql --version
  mysql  Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.51a, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2
  
  koala:/usr/local/lib/redmine-0.8# svn info
  Path: .
  URL: http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/0.8-stable

• Redmine installation folder is redmine-0.8}.

• install required packages

  apt-get install libapache2-svn libapache-dbi-perl libapache2-mod-perl2 libdbd-mysql-perl libdigest-sha1-perl

• enable Apache2 modules

  a2enmod dav
  a2enmod dav_svn
  a2enmod perl

• Perl module configuration

  koala:~# cd /usr/lib/perl5/Apache/
  koala:/usr/lib/perl5/Apache# ln -sf /usr/local/lib/redmine-0.8/extra/svn/Redmine.pm .

  • It's apache}, not apache2}
• Add the following lines to the Apache2 site configuration file

  	PerlLoadModule Apache::Redmine
  	<Location /svn/redmine>
  		DAV svn
  		SVNParentPath "/var/svn/redmine" 
  
  		AuthType Basic
  		AuthName redmine
  		Require valid-user
  
  		PerlAccessHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::access_handler
  		PerlAuthenHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::authen_handler
  
  		## for mysql
  		RedmineDSN "DBI:mysql:database=databasename;host=my.db.server" 
  
  		RedmineDbUser "redmine" 
  		RedmineDbPass "password" 
  	</Location>

Replace databasename}, my.db.server}, redmine} and password} with valid data.

• Enable dav_fs} module

  a2enmod dav_fs

• Register repositories in Apache2

  ./reposman.rb -s /var/git/redmine/ --owner www-data -r http://koala.cs.pub.ro/redmine -u http://koala.cs.pub.ro/git/redmine --scm git -f

• Add the following lines to the Apache2 site configuration file

  	Alias /git/redmine	/var/git/redmine/
  	<Location /git/redmine>
  		DAV on
  
  		AuthType Basic
  		AuthName git-redmine
  		Require valid-user
  
  		PerlAccessHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::access_handler
  		PerlAuthenHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::authen_handler
  
  		## for mysql
  		RedmineDSN "DBI:mysql:database=koala_redmine;host=localhost"
  
  		RedmineDbUser "koala_redmine"
  		RedmineDbPass "ohnameotae"
  	</Location>