SVN-Admin

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A Web Interface for Administering Subversion Repositories

The problem after setting up a subversion server with Apache and the mod_dav_svn module is to give users the right to change their passwords, administer their repositories, get backups, etc. without having a shell account on the subversion server.

This script should close this gap by providing the most common functionality.

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Screenshot

Change Password Interface
Administrator Interface
Administrate Repository
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Quick install instruction

Install apache and mod_dav_svn as usual. Then create a new directory that contains subversion repositories (e.g. /srv/www/subversion). Put the admin.cgi script into another directory (e.g. /srv/www/svnadmin). You should open it with some editor and adapt the paths at the beginning of the script. Then add the following config to your httpd.conf: 

<IfModule mod_dav_svn.c>
  <Location /svn>
    DAV svn
    SVNParentPath /srv/www/subversion

    # The access control policy
    # Allow anonymous access, unless explicitly forbidden 
    Satisfy Any
    Require valid-user
    AuthzSVNAccessFile /srv/www/subversion/.htsvnaccess

    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Subversion repository"
    AuthUserFile /srv/www/subversion/.htpasswd
  </Location>
</IfModule>

ScriptAlias /svnadmin /srv/www/svnadmin/admin.cgi
<Location /svnadmin>
    AllowOverride None
    Options +ExecCGI
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

    Satisfy All
    Require valid-user

    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Subversion repository"
    AuthUserFile /srv/www/subversion/.htpasswd
</Location>

Now create the empty files /srv/www/subversion/.htpasswd and /srv/www/subversion/.htuserinfo and add an initial user with

htpasswd -m .htpasswd hoenicke
echo 'hoenicke:Jochen Hoenicke:hoenicke@...' > .htuserinfo
If you update from a previous version of admin.cgi, you need to create the file .htuserinfo manually.

Create /srv/www/subversion/.htsvnaccess with the following content:

[groups]
admin = hoenicke

Now you're ready to go. Put your browser to the URL http://your.svn.server/svnadmin/, enter the credentials for an administrator login, and create repositories. You can add new users at the configuration page of the repository.

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Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Jochen Hoenicke, Michael Möller

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.