On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 8:51 AM, <andrew.lu...@l-3com.com> wrote: > Can the Apache front end and svnserve service run on the same server? > > We are going through a migration.. I’d like to keep the svnserve setup as a > fallback.. and until everything gets upgraded. > > Will this idea work? > > > > thanks
It can, but it can get tricky. On a Linux or UNIX system, the will need to be shared by a common group of which both the "svnserve" daemon user and the Apache daemon user will need to be members, and the permissions of the writable subdirectories will need to be "2770" to help ensure that new files are created correctly with the right ownership. 2770, means no one *else* can see the files, and and uses the "sgid" bit to help ensure the group ownership is set correctly on new files: look it up! Also, you'll need to review your user and group permissions to write to the repository: Apache can have its own restrictions, on top of those in svnserve.conf, and it can get tricky to make consistent.
