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Easy and simple guide to create a Subversion (SVN) server in Windows?


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Hey

Ive been literally killing myself looking up guides but most are way outdated and/or complicated. I tried a few simply ones but they simply appear to be out of date.

Can someone point me on a easy way to set it up in Windows? Ive been trying to use (as a client) TortoiseSVN but I simply cant get it to work. So I need something simply and easy.....

Thanks a lot!

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  On 02/04/2012 at 14:28, hjf288 said:

http://www.codinghor...on-windows.html

You need to run a server before you can connect using the client and its detailed on there

or use:

http://www.visualsvn.com/server/

Both look good. Im going to try the VisualSVN as the GUI way looks alot easier :p

Its for a Java project, but I perfer a generic version. Both of these look pretty generic so....

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  On 02/04/2012 at 14:28, hjf288 said:

A big +1 for VisualSVN; dead easy to configure and maintain yet still runs Apache at its core, plus it integrates nicely into the Microsoft Management Console so it can be administered very easily remotely as well. Can use SVN or Windows authentication. Depending on your needs though you don't even really need a server, TortoiseSVN can make a file based repository that can be on a network share faster than it took me to type that.

If you use Visual Studio, their client is quite good too. (Wraps around Tortoise.)

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Setting it up locally was pretty easy :)

Now the remote access is the hard part....

Lets say the url is: http://computernamehere.somelocaldomain.local:3980/svn/

How can someone access that from the outside? Thats what I cant really do.

On my internal LAN it works, but on the external I cant get it to work.

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  On 02/04/2012 at 15:05, htcz said:
On my internal LAN it works, but on the external I cant get it to work.

Will most likely need to add a port forwarding rule to your router.

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  On 02/04/2012 at 15:18, Max Norris said:

Will most likely need to add a port forwarding rule to your router.

Already done and nothing.

Like I said, I have a port forward rule for 8080 and that works. But it doesnt work for this (which is 3980) and it has a port forward rule too....

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  On 02/04/2012 at 15:22, htcz said:
Like I said, I have a port forward rule for 8080 and that works. But it doesnt work for this (which is 3980) and it has a port forward rule too....

Ahh thought you were mentioning your firewall, not the router. Are you using SSL? (Namely, forgetting to use https instead of http per your example URL above.)

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  On 02/04/2012 at 15:26, Max Norris said:

Ahh thought you were mentioning your firewall, not the router. Are you using SSL? (Namely, forgetting to use https instead of http per your example URL above.)

Well, no. But locally it works. Do I have to use SSL when accessing it on the outside?

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  On 02/04/2012 at 15:28, htcz said:
Well, no. But locally it works. Do I have to use SSL when accessing it on the outside?

No, just eliminating a possible issue. Is it hitting the server and being refused, or just not seeing it at all? (That is, an authentication issue.) Also, I just saw your example URL above, you can't access the repositories node using a subversion client, need the full repository path, for example: https://svn.example.com/svn/test/ You should also be able to access the web interface remotely. I'm using the default SSL port of 443, and it's working for me remotely anyway. Make sure you're adding the port number if you're going with a non-standard port.

Copy/pasting from VisualSVN's docs:

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Note Unlike web browsers, Subversion clients are unable to access the content of the Repositories node in the VisualSVN Server Manager. In other words, you are unable to access https://svn.example.com/svn/ URL using Subversion clients such as TortoiseSVN or svn.exe.
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  On 02/04/2012 at 15:36, Max Norris said:

No, just eliminating a possible issue. Is it hitting the server and being refused, or just not seeing it at all? (That is, an authentication issue.) Also, I just saw your example URL above, you can't access the repositories node using a subversion client, need the full repository path, for example: https://svn.example.com/svn/test/

Copy/pasting from VisualSVN's docs:

Not seeing it at all. Im using a web browser both locally and remotely.

Local side I access: http://computernamehere.somelocaldomain.local:3980/svn/

Remote side I access (if 234.11.23.12 was my WAN address): http://234.11.23.12:3980

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  On 02/04/2012 at 15:38, GreyWolf said:

Many ISPs block port 80 and 8080 and other "known" HTTP access points. It's possible that's why you cannot access it externally.

8080 isnt blocked by my ISP (a service I have on 8080 works remotely), and putting in my hosts file (if my web server address was hello.dev):

234.11.23.12 hello.dev

I am able to remotely access hello.dev

I dont think this is the only port that is blocked right? It would be too much of a coincidence.....

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OK, I finally got it to work (not my fault; damn dumbed down network admins :p )

Now, my next question is how do I access this thru a SVN client? In this fashion:

svn://234.11.23.12:3980

in TortoiseSVN doesnt work. Simply cant find it....

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