Comments on: Setting up Subversion on Windows Home Server

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:07:27 +0000

I’ve got svn working over internet (on port 8443), but I get the invalid cert warning. I know WHS creates an SSL cert, which is copied to clients when the connector is run. Is it possible to set VisualSVN to use that certificate and get rid of the warning (at least from client computers)?

Thanks,
Brett

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Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:05:50 +0000

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By: Ade Miller

Ade Miller — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:41:00 +0000

Jeff,

Have you configured your firewall to allow access to the additional port? I have port 8443 added to my persistent port forwarding list.

Ade

By: jeff

jeff — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:23:19 +0000

I just set up home server and VisualSVN. I can reach my home server and VisualSVN from home. When not at home, I can reach my home server using https://myserver.homeserver.com but cannot reach VisualSVN using https://myserver.homeserver.com:8443/svn/

I did set it up with port 8443. Where do I go from here?

By: Ade Miller

Ade Miller — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:43:24 +0000

Anders,

All you need to do is write a batch file and execute it using the Windows scheduler. It should use NET STOP/START to shutdown the SVN service before doing an XCOPY of the data from the repository root into a backed up share and then restart the service. If I get time I’ll write an example script at some point.

Ade

By: Anders

Anders — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:18:30 +0000

Thanks for this post. Saved me a LOT of time and gave great value!

I am very interested in learning how a script that backs up the repository could be written, so that SVN is stopped while backing up, and started after completion.

By: Ade Miller

Ade Miller — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:36:55 +0000

Jim,

You have to do this with a separate backup script that shuts down SVN and then copies the repository to a WHS folder that is duplicated. I keep meaning wo write a script to do this but haven’t gotten around to it. I have my whole repository sync’ed on several machines so the code, but not the version history, is duplicated.

Ade

By: Jim Tomasko

Jim Tomasko — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:38:44 +0000

How exciting! Only one thing, is there any way to get the home server to back up the respositories since you have to turn duplication off? I want to have the security of knowing if the drive containing my repositories fails I can recover them.

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Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:03:52 +0000

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By: Ade Miller

Ade Miller — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:49:59 +0000

Pek,

Non-intranet access is definitely possible. You just have to setup your WHS to allow remote/web access. You do this from the WHS console. Click on the Settings button and open the remote access tab.

Ade