# Subversion help! **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 7, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-help/77576 "2006-03-07T02:17:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mshah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@mshah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mshah)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-help/77576/1 "2006-03-07T02:17:28Z")
I created a subversion repository on my new vps and i’m trying to setup my rails app there. However i keep getting this error: subversion/libsvn\_subr/io.c:2516: (apr\_err=13) svn: Can’t create directory ‘/home/svnadmin/rapleaf/db/transactions/0-1.txn’: Permission denied How do i fix this? I know others have had this before, so i would appreciate some help. ---
**Author:** ![mshah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@mshah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mshah)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-help/77576/2 "2006-03-07T03:14:44Z")
Hi ! 2006/3/6, Manish S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > How do i fix this? I know others have had this before, so i would > appreciate some help. Your permissions are hosed on your repository. The Subversion book talks about permissions a bit in this section: [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.multimethod.html](http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.multimethod.html) In the end, it all depends on your server access method. If you use Apache/WebDAV, chmod -R all files in the repository so that your Apache user can read/write to the repository. Also make sure the folders are executable (makes them traversible). Hope that helps ! ---
**Author:** ![mshah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@mshah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mshah)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 3:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-help/77576/3 "2006-03-07T03:38:50Z")
2006/3/6, Manish S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > adduser svnadmin > [snip] > port = 3690 > } Your answer is here. chmod everything to svnadmin and you’ll be fine. Bye ! ---
**Author:** ![mshah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@mshah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mshah)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-help/77576/4 "2006-03-07T06:03:51Z")
Manish, After following Ezra’s excellent rails VPS tutorial on [http://brainspl.atI](http://brainspl.atI) setup subversion and really found the following mini-tutorial helpful ( [Subversion Dev: svn+ssh Setup Mini-tutorial](http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2004-03/0253.shtml)). Let me know if you have any questions after going through it. Nice to use svn+ssh and svnserve and not have to deal with apache. Zack ---
**Author:** ![mshah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@mshah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mshah)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-help/77576/5 "2006-03-07T03:23:46Z")
i see that all the directories in the repository are owned by root. This is most likely why i cannot write to them. What user do i change the ownership too? Why did this happen to begin with. I followed these instructions: 1. wget the needed RPM files: Code: wget [http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/latest/redhat-9.0/bin/subversion-1.3.0-1.rh90.i386.rpm](http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/latest/redhat-9.0/bin/subversion-1.3.0-1.rh90.i386.rpm) wget [http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/latest/redhat-9.0/bin/apr-0.9.5-0.2.i386.rpm](http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/latest/redhat-9.0/bin/apr-0.9.5-0.2.i386.rpm) wget [http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/latest/redhat-9.0/bin/apr-util-0.9.5-0.1.i386.rpm](http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/latest/redhat-9.0/bin/apr-util-0.9.5-0.1.i386.rpm) wget [http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/latest/redhat-9.0/bin/neon-0.24.7-1.i386.rpm](http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/latest/redhat-9.0/bin/neon-0.24.7-1.i386.rpm) 1. install them with rpm: Code: rpm -Uvh apr-0.9.5-0.2.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh apr-util-0.9.5-0.1.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh neon-0.24.7-1.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh subversion-1.3.0-1.rh90.i386.rpm 1. Did it work? Code: svn --version svn, version 1.3.0 (r17949) compiled Jan 2 2006, 17:22:43 Yay! We have subversion installed. Now to add it to xinetd so that it starts in inetd mode automatically. First, we’ll add a login for xinetd to run svnserve as: Code: adduser svnadmin passwd svnadmin Next, we’ll add the ports that xinetd is to forward to svnserve, in /etc/services. Code: vi /etc/services (I like vim, you can use pico or emacs or nano or whatever text editor it is that you like) and add the following two lines at the bottom: Code: svnserve 3690/tcp #subversion svnserve 3690/udp #subversion Save and quit. Next, we’ll add the xinetd script. Create the file with Code: touch /etc/xinetd.d/svnserve and then edit it with your favorite editor. With vi, it would be Code: vi /etc/xinetd.d/svnserve Paste this into the file: Code: # default: on # Subversion server service svnserve { socket\_type = stream protocol = tcp user = svnadmin wait = no disable = no server = /usr/bin/svnserve server\_args = -i -r /home/svnadmin port = 3690 } Awesome. Now xinetd knows to start svnserve in inetd mode whenever someone connects to port 3690. Next, let’s reload xinetd: Code: kill -SIGUSR2 `cat /var/run/xinetd.pid` Next, let’s make sure xinetd is listening for 3690: Code: netstat -anp | grep LISTEN | grep 3690 If you get nothing, you messed up one of the steps above. If you get a line that looks like this: Code: tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3690 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN 7136/xinetd Then you are in business. Now to set up svnserve. First, let’s create a repository using the svnadmin _program_ (not to be confused with the svnadmin _user_): Code: svnadmin create /home/svnadmin/mysvnrepo Next, let’s set up the credentials for users connecting to it: Code: vi /home/svnadmin/mysvnrepo/conf/svnserve.conf paste in the following: Code: [general] anon-access = none auth-access = write password-db = passwd realm = My Code Repository Save and quit. Next, let’s create some users. Go into the svnserve passwd file to do it: Code: vi /home/svnadmin/mysvnrepo/conf/passwd Here is an example of what to do. The format is user = password: Code: [users] Jane = mycat’sname Harry = i’msuchasexystud I certainly hope you’ll use much better passwords than that Finally, to make sure everything works, install Subversion and TortoiseSVN, right click on your desktop, click TortoiseSVN-\>Browse Repo, and put in Code: svn://mydomainname.com/mysvnrepo ---
**Author:** ![mshah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@mshah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mshah)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-help/77576/6 "2006-03-07T12:37:24Z")
ok so i managed to setup my repository. Now i wanted to get apache going with regular cgi just to get things started. I modified my httpd.conf file to include the stuff from the agile dev book. I changed the Doc root to be /myapp/public. I restarted apache. I even created a symlink inside the public\_html directory to myapp/public However when i browse to my ip address of the server (i havent setup the dns stuff yet) i get a default holding page that should only show when the domain has not been touched at all. At this point apache should read from myapp/public or error right? what am i doing wrong? Please help…