Subversion & WHM/Cpanel 11

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Subversion 1.9.1 with Apache 2.4.x

 

cd /home/downloads/svn
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.9.1.tar.gz
tar xfvz subversion-1.9.1.tar.gz
cd subversion-1.9.1
sh get-deps.sh
./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --with-apr=/usr/local/apache/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/home/cpeasyapache/src/httpd-2.4/srclib/apr-util
make clean
make
make install

 

The apache pre-main config is as recently

LoadModule dav_svn_module /usr/local/libexec/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module /usr/local/libexec/mod_authz_svn.so

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Couple of additional notes... If you need to switch your repository across to using an SSL connection rather than standard http you can do this by:

 

1. Installing a self signed cert for the domain you're using for your repository

ref: https://www.a2hosting.com/kb/security/ssl/installing-a-self-signed-ssl-certificate

(assuming you haven't gone out and registered a signed one that is)

 

2. Copying your custom.conf from the std to ssl..

cp /etc/httpd/conf/userdata/std/2_4/[u]user[/u]/www.[u]userdom[/u].co.uk/svn_custom.conf /etc/httpd/conf/userdata/ssl/2_4/[u]user[/u]/www.[u]userdom[/u].co.uk/svn_custom.conf

 

3. Incorporating the custom configuration into your httpd.conf

#TEST the custom configuration before you commit it!
/scripts/verify_vhost_includes

#Assuming all is well... commit the svn_custom.conf and restart the apache server:

/scripts/ensure_vhost_includes --user=[[u]user[/u]]

/scripts/rebuildhttpdconf
/scripts/restartsrv_httpd

 

4. Checkout your code using the new https url

 

... and that's about it...

 

 

Just to note this approach is useful if you have nginx handling your standard/port80 web traffic and apache for any secure/port443 traffic. I was finding that I was getting bursts of activity from the server via port 80 following by 504 gateway timeout errors so this helped fix access.

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This is a work in progress but just to update with what I've learned so far with EasyApache4 on WHM/Cpanel

 

cd /home/downloads/svn
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.9.7.tar.gz
tar xfvz subversion-1.9.7.tar.gz
cd subversion-1.9.7
sh get-deps.sh
./configure --with-apr=/opt/cpanel/ea-apr15/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/opt/cpanel/ea-apr15/bin/apu-1-config
make clean
make
make install

 

Bound to be some gotcha's in this that I haven't found yet but as with anything perhaps this will provide someone else with a clue to figure out the solution to the next problem (assuming there is one)

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Can someone please help me to understand where the path comes from?

./configure --with-apr=/opt/cpanel/ea-apr15/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/opt/cpanel/ea-apr15/bin/apu-1-config

 

On my system I am unable to locate apr-1-config.

I am using WHM 68 version with Cent OS 7.

 

cd /home/downloads/svn
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.9.7.tar.gz
tar xfvz subversion-1.9.7.tar.gz
cd subversion-1.9.7
sh get-deps.sh
./configure --with-apr=/opt/cpanel/ea-apr15/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/opt/cpanel/ea-apr15/bin/apu-1-config
make clean
make
make install

 

Bound to be some gotcha's in this that I haven't found yet but as with anything perhaps this will provide someone else with a clue to figure out the solution to the next problem (assuming there is one)

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Can someone please help me to understand where the path comes from?

./configure --with-apr=/opt/cpanel/ea-apr15/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/opt/cpanel/ea-apr15/bin/apu-1-config

 

On my system I am unable to locate apr-1-config.

I am using WHM 68 version with Cent OS 7.

Unfortunately I realised late on that the directory above was created from the legacy EA4 Apache installation prior to conversion to Cloudlinux. I believe you can still use EA4 to create an Apache installation with the appropriate version of PHP and you'll need to ensure you install the appropriate modules... From that it's then a case of using "locate" in shell to figure out where the apr-1-config and apu-1-config are and go from there.

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Bringing this back up to speed...

 

cd /home/downloads/svn
wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.10.0.tar.gz
tar xfvz subversion-1.10.0.tar.gz
cd subversion-1.10.0
sh get-deps.sh
./configure --with-apr=/usr/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/usr/bin/apu-1-config
make clean
make
make install

 

Note: You will hit errors if you haven't already installed LZ4 and utf8proc so chances are the configure command line may need look more like this:

./configure --with-apr=/usr/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/usr/bin/apu-1-config --with-lz4=internal --with-utf8proc=internal

Personally we just installed lz4 binary and devel packages using YUM and then used the internal ref for utf8proc

yum install lz4 lz4-devel

so... our final code looked more like this.

 

cd /home/downloads/svn
wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.10.0.tar.gz
tar xfvz subversion-1.10.0.tar.gz
cd subversion-1.10.0
sh get-deps.sh
./configure --with-apr=/usr/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/usr/bin/apu-1-config --with-utf8proc=internal
make clean
make
make install

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Couple of additional points to address as the 1.10.0 installation created a few new problems for my particular install.

 

1. Thanks to Louidvdw for sharing the permissions point here

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/nix/26101-subversion-whm-cpanel-11-a-2.html#post743185

 

2. You may hit a slew of "Forbidden" access errors which are likely to be picked up on in your apache error log

In my case the issues were caused by a poorly edited svnaccess file (ie: the file with all the repos group associations, permissions, etc...)

It seems that SVN now sanity checks this file and applies strict rules to the file, resulting in forbidden errors until you fix them.

 

So, things to look out for:

 

- "Section appears more than once in the authz file [foo]"

Fix: Check for [foo] in your access file and remove any duplicates

 

- "Access entry refers to undefined group '@bar'"

Fix: Look under your [groups] section and look for any groups that have no members assigned (eg: bar = ). You can either assign a default user (eg: root) or remove the group and any permissions assigned to that group under the relevant repositories.

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That time again so a quick update as EasyApache4 made a few changes.

 

cd /home/downloads/svn
wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.1.0.tar.gz
tar xfvz subversion-1.10.0.tar.gz
cd subversion-1.10.0
sh get-deps.sh
./configure --with-apr=/home/cpeasyapache/src/httpd-2.4/srclib/apr/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/home/cpeasyapache/src/httpd-2.4/srclib/apr-util/apu-1-config --with-utf8proc=internal
make clean
make
make install

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Version 1.14.2

(on a new server)

 

cd /home/downloads/svn
wget https://dlcdn.apache.org/subversion/subversion-1.14.2.tar.gz
tar xfvz subversion-1.14.2.tar.gz
cd subversion-1.14.2
sh get-deps.sh
yum install apr-devel
yum install apr-util-devel
yum install lz4 lz4-devel
./configure --with-apr=/usr/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/usr/bin/apu-1-config --with-utf8proc=internal
make clean
make
make install

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If you're on a new server you'll also need to do the following:

yum install httpd-devel

...before you run the ./configure line.