chhamilton/svn-server repository overview

⁠Description

Lightweight container providing an SVN server, based on linuxserver.io Alpine Linux and S6 process management (see here⁠ for details). The access to the server is possible via WebDav protocol (http://), and via custom protocol (svn://).

This is based on Elle Florio's excellent svn-docker, but has been updated from Alpine Linux 3.2 to 3.15 (the last build that supports PHP7, needed for SVNAdmin support). It has also been adapted to use the linuxserver.io Alpine Linux base image, which has PUID/PGID support for controlling what user Apache will run as, and use to access the repositories that are mounted in the container.

Elle Florio provided a tutorial on how to build this image, and how to run the container on Medium⁠

The source code for this image is available on GitHub⁠.

⁠Running Commands

To run the image, you can use the following command:

docker run -d --name svn-server -p 80:80 -p 3690:3690 -v <hostpath>:/home/svn -v svn_config:/etc/subversion -v svnadmin_config:/opt/svnadmin/data chhamilton/svn-server

/home/svn stores your repositories and can use either bind mount or named volume. /etc/subversion stores subversion configuration and /opt/svnadmin/data stores SVNADMIN configuration and both MUST use named volume.

⁠Configuration

Apache will run with the user and group ID provided via the PUID and PGID environment variables, like all linuxserver.io based containers.

Subversion repositories are expected to be mounted at /home/svn, and need to be read/write accessible to the Apache user.

Access control is via the passwd (htpasswd format) and subversion-access-control files in /etc/subversion. There are default empty version of these provided in the image but you should ideally replace this configuration directory. These are read from and written to as root so file permissions aren't overly important.

You need to setup username and password for the access via WebDav protocol. You can use the following command from your host machine:

docker exec -t svn-server htpasswd -b /etc/subversion/passwd <username> <password>

To verify that everything is up and running, open your browser and connect to http://localhost/svn. The system should ask you for the username and password, then it will show you an empty folder (no repos yet if using the stock image, or your repos if you are mounting them). Check also that the custom protocol is working fine: go to your terminal and type svn info svn://localhost:3690. The system should connect to the server and tell you that is not able to find any repository. For further information on how to configure Subversion, please refer to the official web page⁠.

⁠Alternative configuration via SVNADMIN

the image provides a graphical ui using the SVNADMIN⁠ interface via http://localhost/svnadmin. You'll be prompted with a setup page, remember to test every step on the page then save the configuration.