How to setup Subversion Edge on Centos 6

• Create a non-root user account, for example, svnuser

groupadd svn
useradd -g svn svnuser
passwd svnuser

• Logon as svnuser

su svnuser

• Download Subversion Edge Linux version from CollabNet. Choose 32-bit or 64-bit version according to your java version used.

• Create subversion folder under /opt to hold the Subversion Edge package

mkdir /opt/subversion
chown -R svnuser:svn /opt/subversion
sudo chmod o+wx /opt/subversion

• Extract the downloaded package and move it under /opt/subversion folder

mkdir /opt/subversion
tar zxf CollabNetSubversionEdge-5.1.1_linux-x86.tar.gz
mv csvn /opt/subversion

• Export JAVA_HOME in /etc/profile

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-openjdk

• Add svnuser to /etc/sudoers to disable password asked for sudo command

svnuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /opt/subversion/csvn/bin/httpd

• Comment out requiretty in /etc/sudoers

#Defaults    requiretty

• Copy csvn.conf from csvn.conf.dist

cd /opt/subversion/csvn/data/conf/
cp csvn.conf.dist csvn.conf

• Install Subversion Edge service

cd /opt/subversion/csvn
sudo –E bin/csvn install

• Edit /opt/subversion/csvn/data/conf/csvn.conf and set the user id to run Subversion Edge service

RUN_AS_USER=svnuser

• Start Subversion Edge service

bin/csvn start

• Browse http://localhost:3343/csvn with admin/admin
• To enable the subversion server start automatically, run below command

bin/csvn-httpd install