SVN Users and Repositories

We have setup our SVN to be accessed through http with the help of Apache. Here’s a sample configuration that we have used. vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf Add the below into subversion.conf <VirtualHost *:443> ServerName svn.mydomain.com DocumentRoot /var/www/svn.mydomain.com <Directory /var/www/svn.mydomain.com> AllowOverride All Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Options -Indexes Require all granted </Directory> <Location /repos/newrepository> DAV svn SVNPath /var/svn/repos/newrepository AuthName "Subversion repository" AuthType Digest AuthUserFile /var/svn/svn-auth.htdigest AuthzSVNAccessFile /var/svn/svn-acl.conf Require valid-user </Location> SSLEngine on SSLProtocol all SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca.svn.mydomain.com.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/ca.svn.mydomain.com.key ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/svn.mydomain.com-error_log CustomLog /var/log/httpd/svn.mydomain.com-access_log combined </VirtualHost> You can create a new SVN user by using the command below. This would store the encrypted password into svn-auth.htdigest ...

March 7, 2016

Testing Yii with Codeception

We have an application written in Yii. Up til this point, it has been manually tested. Since it’s more efficient to automate the testing of this application, we have decided to set up Codeception to assist us with this task. Set up was easy and straight forward - this said after spending countless hours understanding the correct way to set it up. To illustrate the set up process, we’ll create a skeleton Yii app. ...

February 2, 2016

What I've Learnt Migrating a Blog from Wordpress to Blogger

As per the subject, migrating a blog from Wordpress to Blogger isn’t as hard as most would have imagined, On the down side, it’s a bit tedious if you have stored your images with your Wordpress blog. For my case, I have always stored my images on Picasa Web, so, I need not go through the process of copying the images out from the Wordpress blog. Here’s the straight forward process of exporting your Wordpress blog into Blogger. ...

January 21, 2016

Share Your Knowledge and Pass It Along

Knowledge gained through hard work or experience are meant to be shared. You might think that holding on to this knowledge would make you indispensable, or by sharing, it would jeopardize your position since someone else can do it. Yet, have you considered the possibility that you have limited yourself to the scope of this work? You’ll end up being the person doing it all the time, and losing the chance to gain new knowledge and experience. ...

January 8, 2016