Install SVN on QNAP NAS

Installing SVN on QNAP

ssh into the QNAP NAS with the admin account.

ssh admin@ipaddress

on the QNAP then install SVN via ipkg

ipkg update

ipkg install svn

To determine the hard drive / volume you want to save the repository on:

df

will show something like:

/share/HDA_DATA

I decided to create a repository svn and then a project folder within that.

mkdir /share/HDA_DATA/svn/projectA

and then

svnadmin create /share/HDA_DATA/svn/projectA

and edit the config files to password protect write

vi /share/HDA_DATA/svn/projectA/conf/svnserve.conf

[general]
### These options control access to the repository for unauthenticated
### and authenticated users.  Valid values are "write", "read",
### and "none".  The sample settings below are the defaults.
anon-access = read
auth-access = write
### The password-db option controls the location of the password
### database file.  Unless you specify a path starting with a /,
### the file's location is relative to the directory containing
### this configuration file.
### If SASL is enabled (see below), this file will NOT be used.
### Uncomment the line below to use the default password file.
password-db = passwd

and then edit the passwd file

[users]

username = password

and then start the SVN server with

svnserve -d --listen-port=3690

On Ubuntu I installed the following to enable command line and Nautilus / Gedit integration

sudo apt-get install rabbitvcs-nautilus rabbitvcs-gedit

sudo apt-get install subversion

To test the repository I used RabbitVCS SVN via Nautilus, Repository browser and then entered the url:

svn://ipaddress:3690/share/HDA_DATA/svn/projectA/