[chora] Subversion with Chora/Horde RC1

[Gerard Samuel]

Sweat, Jason E. wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: chora-bounces at lists.horde.org [mailto:chora-bounces at lists.horde.org] On Behalf Of Gerard Samuel
>Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 7:52 AM
>To: Chuck Hagenbuch
>Cc: chora at lists.horde.org
>Subject: Re: [chora] Subversion with Chora/Horde RC1
>  
>
>>>Make sure you can run svn commands from the command line as the user your
>>>webserver runs as. Go from there, I guess...
>>>      
>>>
>>Unfortunately, on FreeBSD, the webserver user doesn't have a shell to 
>>execute commands.
>>I'll post a question to the FreeBSD mailing list to see if I can get any 
>>bites on this.
>>Thanks
>>    
>>
>
>That does not make a lot of sense.  The web server has to have some access to external system commands.
>
>What does a script like this produce?
><?php echo `which ls`; ?>
>
>Then you should be able to do something like
><?php echo `which svn`; ?>
>
Ok, you put some sense in my head.  What I should have said above, was
that the webserver user has a shell that doesn't allow logging in, so I 
couldn't
execute commands as the webserver user on the command line (maybe there is
another way, besides "su www").
But I didn't think to run *system* commands via php.
The output of your suggestion ->
/bin/ls /usr/local/bin/svn

I went one step further and tried
<?php echo `svn --version`; ?>
and got ->
product includes software developed by CollabNet 
(http://www.Collab.Net/). The following repository access (RA) modules 
are available: * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local 
disk. - handles 'file' schema * ra_svn : Module for accessing a 
repository using the svn network protocol. - handles 'svn' schema

So it seems the webserver user can execute svn commands.
I'll try playing around with it, to see if I can shed any further
light on my issue.

Thanks