Installing Collabnet SVN on CentOS & Redhat

Collabnet SVN provides a good Web-GUI to do mundane SVN administration via webinterface. Here's a howto to get it installed on CentOS.

Prerequisites:

1)    Java 1.6 JRE/JDK must be installed.

2)    Python 2.4 or higher version must be installed.

3)    Download CollabNetSubversionEdge-2.2.1_linux (32/64 bit)

WARNING:

Note: Do not untar CollabNetSubversionEdge-2.2.1_linux package using root or sudo. This will cause the UID/GID on the files to carry the values from the collabnet build system instead of being reset.

1.      Install JAVA Runtime Environment package from Add/Remove Software (System>Administration>Add/Remove Software) by searching for Java/JRE.

OR

# yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64

  2.      After Java installation is over, type the following command in Terminal window.

                    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64

  And also add the above line to /etc/profile (at the bottom of the file)

  #sudo gedit /etc/profile

  OR

  #sudo vi /etc/profile

       Now you can check the installed java version by the following command.

      # java –version

      Probably this would be the output:

      java version "1.6.0_22"

       OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.10.4) (rhel-1.42.1.10.4.el6_2-x86_64)

       OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b11, mixed mode) 

3.      Add any normal (non-root) user to etc/sudoers file or by the following command.

# visudo

And add the following line anywhere in the file.

username  ALL=(ALL)  ALL

4.      Now migrate to non-root (normal) user and select the folder where you want to install CollabNet Subversion Edge. I would recommend you to install the Subversion in the normal user folder. It can be Downloads/ Documents/ Desktop etc.

[root@localhost ]# su – username

[username@localhost]$ mkdir opt/subversion

Note: If you are not able to create folder “subversion” in “opt” directory, then you can create it through “root” or “sudo”.

[username@localhost]$ cd opt/subversion

[username@localhost]$ sudo chmod o+wx /opt/subversion/

Now move the downloaded CollabNetSubversionEdge-2.2.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz package to opt/subversion.

5.      Now Untar the CollabNetSubversionEdge-2.2.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz package by the following command.

[username@localhost subversion]$ tar zxf CollabNetSubversionEdge-2.2.1_linux-x86_64.tar.gz  

Note: The above command will create a folder named “csvn”.

[username@localhost subversion]$ cd csvn

Now we will install the application so that subversion will start automatically when the server restarts. For doing this type the following command.

Note: To set up the server so that it starts automatically when rebooted, you will need to have root/sudo access and follow these steps.

Edit the configuration. When a process is started at server startup it runs as root. You do not want the CSVN console to run as root, you want it to run as a specific user -- whatever your login user is.

1. To do this, edit the file data/conf/csvn.conf.
   

$ vi data/conf/csvn.conf

2. Scroll down a little bit until you see #RUN_AS_USER= . Uncomment it out and add your username.
   

Example:

RUN_AS_USER= username

3. Save the changes.
   

[username@localhost csvn]$ sudo –E bin/csvn install

Now we will start the server. Be sure that you are not logged in as root.

[username@localhost csvn]$ bin/csvn start

This will take a few minutes and the script will loop until it sees that the server is running.

Note: If the server does not start, then try starting the server with this command:

 [username@localhost csvn]$ bin/csvn console

 6.      Add the following line to /etc/sysconfig/iptables

  # iptables -A INPUT –p tcp --dport 3343 –j ACCEPT

  Restart firewall to update the changes

  # service iptables restart

  Installation is done, now open the following link:

  http://localhost:3343/csvn

username: admin 

password: admin

  Note: If you are not able to see your CSVN server on the browser, then just disabled the your system Firewall by entering setup command in the terminal window.

# setup

Or 

Go to System>Administration>Firewall and disable it.

  Note: You can change the IP address of your subversion server with your machine IP address by editing 

 opt/subversion/csvn/data/conf/csvn.conf file (at line no. 62) by the following command.

$ sudo vi data/conf/csvn.conf

  OR

$ sudo gedit  data/conf/csvn.conf

Subversion Edge also starts an SSL-protected version using a self-signed SSL certificate.

You can access the SSL version on this URL:

   https://localhost:4434/csvn