How to Install and Configure Subversion Server with HTTP Access

Hi all, Recently I came across with the $subject and I was unable to find a comprehensive tutorial. So In this post I've decided to show how to install and configure apache subversion server and configure the server to access via http in ubuntu.

First of all update the apt-get by the following command.

sudo apt-get update

Then Install the subversion and it's utilities.

sudo apt-get install subversion subversion-tools libapache2-svn

Create two directories svn and repository in your home directory.

mkdir /home/ubuntu/svn 
mkdir /home/ubuntu/repository

Next step is to create the svn repository.

sudo svnadmin create /home/ubuntu/svn/repo

Create some folders inside the repository directory.

cd /home/ubuntu/repository 
mkdir tags branches trunk

Execute the svn import command to import repository.

sudo svn import /home/ubuntu/repository file:///home/ubuntu/svn/repo

Install apache2 server from the following command.

sudo apt-get install apache2

Enable dav_svn apache module

sudo a2enmod dav_svn

Open up the apache2.conf file

sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Add the following to the end of the file.

<Location /svn>
    DAV svn
    SVNParentPath /home/ubuntu/svn
</Location>

Open up the svnserve.conf file

sudo vi /home/ubuntu/svn/repo/conf/svnserve.conf

Add the following content to the file

anon-access = none
auth-access = write
password-db = passwd

Open up the passwd file.

sudo vi /home/ubuntu/svn/repo/conf/passwd

Add a user to the passwd file, I'll add username:password as aruna:aruna

aruna = aruna

Restart the apache server

sudo service apache2 restart

Access your svn server using the following url.

http://localhost/svn/repo

That's it folks, Now you have your own svn server.. :)

How to Build WSO2 Carbon 4.2.0 Tutorial for a newbie

Hi all, in this post I am going to describe how to build WSO2 carbon from source. Now carbon is moving towards it's newest version carbon 5 (C5). 

prerequisites

1. Linux (Mine is Ubuntu 13.04)
2. Oracle Java 1.6 (1.7 is still not supported)
3. Apache Maven 3.0.5 (see post for installing apache maven)
4. Subversion

I assume that you have installed and configured all of the above and ready to build carbon. :)

Create a directory called carbon. Inside that folder create three directories called orbit, kernel and platform. If you need to build WSO2 carbon you first need to build orbit, kernel and the platform. You may be confused and wondering what is this orbit, kernel and platform is. Orbit is the third party external dependencies which needed for carbon. Kernel is the core part of the carbon which other wso2 products are run upon. Platform contains the other products of wso2.

carbon --- > orbit

            --- > kernel

            --- > platform

Ok first move into the orbit folder and checkout the source. To do so execute the following command.

svn checkout http://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/carbon/orbit/branches/4.2.0/

Then move into the kernel folder and checkout the source. To do so execute the following command.

svn checkout http://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/carbon/kernel/branches/4.2.0/

And finally move into the platform folder and checkout the platform source.

svn checkout http://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/carbon/platform/branches/turing/

Before building from source there are few settings to be applied. open the .bashrc file using the following command.

gedit /home/HOME_DIR/.bashrc

and append  the following lines.

MAVEN_OPTS=" -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m"
export MAVEN_OPTS

now build the following order; orbit -->  kernel and finally platform.
Move into the orbit folder and you'll see pom.xml file. Enter the following command to build the orbit.

mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

Note that to complete the build you need to connect to the internet. Now that's it. There may be some build failures. Try updating the subversion and rebiuld.

In the next tutorial I'm going to explain how to debug the carbon kernel. See you until then.