Rockurchin's Adventures In Programming

Added Jan 2, 2011, Under: Linux

Create a share called “svnrepos” using Drobo Control
Install SVN Drobo app from here: http://drobo.jhah.net/apps/subversion/start
Ssh into your Drobo. Change directory to /mnt/DroboFS/Shares/DroboApps/subversion/bin
Create a repository by typing “./svnadmin create /mnt/DroboFS/Shares/svnrepos/RepoName
Before you can actually add anything to repos with your regular SVN client you need to set up user access. I’m going to go the quickest, easiest root.
Cd to /mnt/DroboFS/Shares/svnrepos/RepoName/conf
Edit svnserve.conf. Uncomment the following lines:

[general]
anon-access = read
auth-access = write
password-db = passwd

Edit “passwd” file. Add myuser=mypassword and save.
Should be able to check things in and out now from svn://myuser@192.168.1.10:3690/RepoName

Now I need to figure out how to access my Drobo FS from outside my network…

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Kevin

Should be able to do port-forwarding on your router external port 3690 to internal port 3690 on the IP of your drobo, and you should be good to go.

Anonymous

I got it working. I set up my router to use a dynamic domain name from DnyDNS.com first. Then I was able to do the port forwarding set up through the Applications and Games tab in my router admin panel, and all is good. I thought it would be quite slow accessing my svn repos this way, but it actually seems to be surprisingly fast. Thanks for your recommendations sir.

http://www.fauxzen.com/ Shelby DeNike

Shouldn’t be too difficult with apache and php running on the Drobo. I actually have another linux box that mounts my DroboFS and runs websvn off that.

http://www.fauxzen.com/ Shelby DeNike

Thanks for the details, seemed like you were missing a few pieces to get this running. I did a write up on all the steps I took to get this working on my DroboFS - http://www.fauxzen.com/2012/installing-subversion-on-a-drobofs-2/ Might help some others