I signed up for an EC2 free tier tonight intending to use it as a Subversion server. The whole process took a couple of hours to setup, but can be compressed down to just a few minutes. If anybody else is looking to do the same, here is what I did:
1) Create the Linux-flavored micro instance.
2) Give it a Security Group that opens port 3690 to the sources of your choice. The following example allows SVN access from all Internet sources:
| tcp | 3690 | 3690 | 0.0.0.0/0
| udp | 3690 | 3690 | 0.0.0.0/0
3) SSH into the micro instance and run the command "sudo yum install subversion".
4) Create the directory to be used for subversion, for example "/home/ec2-user/svn".
5) Enter "svnadmin create /home/ec2-user/svn" (or whichever path you specified).
6) Edit two files: svnserve.conf and passwd both found in the "conf" directory of your newly created repository source.
In svnserve.conf, unremark the lines for "anon-access" (but change from "read" to "none") and "auth-access". Additionally, unremark the "password-db = passwd" line, but don't change it, and unremark the "realm =" line, providing a realm name of your choice.
In the passwd file, simply add a line entry with the user name(s) and password(s) to be used for access.
7) Finally, run "svnserve -d -r /home/ec2-user/svn" (or again, whichever path you specified) to kick off the instance.
Your Subversion server should now be available at the URL: svn://<yourinstancehostorip>/
Keep in mind the security for this quick and dirty setup is very minimal, and the daemon has not been configured for automatic startup at this point.
Friday, July 26, 2013
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