Great to have you here! I'm pleased that more books about SVN are appearing.
What are your experiences, good and bad, with running SVN on Windows Server 2000/2003? One of the difficulties that I've found while working in this environment is that everyone seems to have a different set of steps for it, both for installing and for configuring things such as SSPI authentication with Apache.
Thanks, Craig
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I run Subversion on a Win2K laptop with an Apache2 HTTP server. I just followed the instructions in the Subversion documentation, and everything works. However, there was a problem with the last production build that I got, in that a wrong version of one of the dll's was included. I extracted the dll from an earlier version, and everything comes right up.
I also set up Subversion/Apache2 HTTPD on a Win2K Server in our development lab. I didn't do anything fancy for authentication, just followed the examples in the Subversion docs. It works fine, but involves a bit of administration in setting up user branches and maintaining the password file. I want to try pointing this server at our corporate LDAP next, to do away with the password maintenance piece.
Happy to see news and activity around Subversion! Even after buying the O'Reilly CVS pocket edition, I was always intimidated by version control. With the help of Subversion I am comfortable with most (but not all) of the basic concepts.
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I have not had issues with win2k3, it works pretty well. There are a couple ways to deal with authentication. You can just use the Apache htpasswd and deal the users that way. The second way is using svnserve. If the windows server has ssh, you can easily create an ssh tunnel with svnserve so the server will do the authentication and you do not have to maintain two sets of users.
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Originally posted by Philip Shanks: I run Subversion on a Win2K laptop with an Apache2 HTTP server.
Hi Philip,
What is the role of apache's http server in performing version control using subversion? What function does a http server perform here?
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