Extract & Prepare

Extract the ZIP archive and copy the complete /svnadmin/ folder to your web folder. You can also copy the contents of the folder to your web servers (VirtualHost) root directory.

File Permissions

The application requires full-access to its own /data/ folder.
$> chmod -R 777 /var/www/svnadmin/data
To manage the Subversion authorization file it is also required to set write permissions on the SVNAuthFile. (make a backup!)

Configure

After the above steps you can reach the application by typing http://www.<yourhost>.com/svnadmin/ into the address bar of your browser and configure it.

Easy to say: “It is not possible.”
The 1.4 comes with a new structure to make future updates easy. All configurations are now saved in the new data/config.ini file, which is created on the first start up. We recommend to save your current include/config.inc.php to simply copy-paste your configuration into the new setup page.

No tests until now...
I recommend to do clean installation, because the complete templating system has been changed and a lot of files has been moved.

Note: You can still use your old /data/ directory, which contains the configuration of the application.

The configurations are all in the application /data/config.ini file. If you have made updates, it is possible that not all configurations are in your config file. You can copy them from /data/config.ini.tpl.

Here are all configurations beeing covered, which are not changeable by the application's settings page.

The application provides the functionality to delete repositories, but its disabled by default.

Section	GUI
Key	RepositoryDeleteEnabled
Value	(bool) true / false

In cases of long running updates it makes sense to hide the Update link in navigation and run the updates via the command line interface (cli.php).

Section	GUI
Key	AllowUpdateByGui
Value	(bool) true / false

The application allows you to define two configuration for external repository browsers. The inbuild Apache Subversion browsing functionality and a custom one like ViewVC or WebSVN.

Configuration for Apache directory listing

Section	GUI
Key	ApacheDirectoryListing
Value	(string) URL
Parameters	%1 = Repository name %2 = Relative path (no leading slash)
Example	https://svn.insanefactory.com/repositories/%1/%2

Configuration for custom web application repository listing

Section	GUI
Key	CustomDirectoryListing
Value	(string) URL
Parameters	%1 = Repository name %2 = Relative path (no leading slash)
Example	http://localhost/svnadmin/repositoryview.php?r=%1&p=%2

The settings page currently only allows to use a single location of repositories (SVNParentPath). You can configure more adding additional sections.

Example configuration for multiple repository locations:

[Repositories:svnclient]
SVNParentPath=C:\my repos
SvnExecutable=C:\subversion\svn.exe
SvnAdminExecutable=C:\subversion\svnadmin.exe
Description=First location

[Repositories:svnclient:1]
SVNParentPath=C:\my repos 1
Description=Second location

[Repositories:svnclient:2]
SVNParentPath=C:\my repos 2
Description=Third location

Most configurations are already available on the application's settings page.

The caching mechanism allows to save the required data from LDAP server to a local storage file (in /data/) directory. This increases the performance a lot.

Section	Ldap
Key	CacheEnabled
Value	(bool) true / false

The path to the storage file can be configured by (optional):

Section	Ldap
Key	CacheFile
Value	(string) Path to the storage file
Default	./data/ldap.cache.json

If your LDAP database has more than 1000 users and groups, but you only receive 1001 entities you need to update your PHP version to 5.4. Previous PHP versions doesn't support fetching more than 1001 entities from LDAP server.

iF.SVNAdmin is compatible with PHP 5.4 since 1.6.0