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VisualSVN Server - Subversion Server for Windows

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What ways there are to backup repositories for Windows VisualSVN?

At this moment we are using Visual SVN and we are backing up the entire repositories directory for visual svn. This backs up the entire data for each repository inside our svn engine. I am curious ...
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What should I consider to secure SVN on Windows? [closed]

Currently I am using VisualSVN Server and it's only accessible on my home network. Eventually there will be others accessing it, but for now it's just me and I would like to be able to go down to the ...
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How to run VisualSVN Server on port 443 running IIS on same server?

Server 2008 R2 SP1 VisualSVN Server 2.1.6 The IIS server has about 10 sites. One of them uses https over port 443 with the following bindings: http x.x.x.39:80 site.com http x.x.x.39:80 www.site.com ...
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Mercurial Web Server

Is there a Mercurial equivalent to VisualSVN Server? I want to setup an http web server for a mercurial repository that has nested repositories. Using the docs it's very difficult to get what I want.
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How can I do daily backups for my VisualSVN Repos? [duplicate]

How can I do daily backups for my VisualSVN Repos? Its on a Windows Server 2003 machine with VisualSVN Server, I was thinking about just doing an xcopy of the folder C:\Repo but I'm not familiar ...
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Is it possible to bind domain names to VisualSVN server and IIS on the one box without using a port?

I’ve got a machine running VisualSVN Server for SCM and IIS which hosts a web front end to perform some repository management tasks. Ideally, I’d like to bind a different domain name to each but it ...
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Visual SVN 2.0 and IIS

How can I set up Visual SVN Server to run on port 443 and also have IIS set up to handle other website access on port 443? The URL usually points to /svn/ for the svn server anyway and the other ...
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SVN Server stopped working properly (403 Forbidden)

Ok, first of all, I've already googled a lot about this problem, but didn't found any solution... I've searched here and on ServerFault, but didn't found anything, so I end up posting this question ...
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How to fix 'Repository moved permanently to'? using VisualSVN / Subversion

I'm using Visual SVN on a server. Fresh install. Create a new repository. Try to connect using a client it comes up with "Repository moved permanently to 'https://x.x.x.x:6443/'; please relocate"...
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can visualsvn server be bound to more then one port?

I know i can go to the visualsvn server properties and specify the port and IP address. But what i would like to know is if i can specify a different port for different IP addresses? For example, say ...
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How does VisualSVN store passwords?

We are running a VisualSVN Server that needs ~300 users to be created. As the need to mass create users is likely to reoccur, I'd prefer not to task someone with data entry for account creation. I've ...
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Prevent IIS7 HTTPS from binding to all SSL IP addresses

I've had this interesting problem with IIS7. I have a number of HTTPS sites in IIS7. That hasn't been a problem, until I wanted to go and set up VisualSVN Server using an SSL certificate. The ...
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Running two instances of VisualSVN Server on one machine?

Is it possible to run more than one instance of VisualSVN Server on a single machine? I would like to have one instance accessible only from the local network (blocked on firewall) and the other one ...
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IIS7 proxying VisualSVN server refuses to allow Web.config files to be committed

I use IIS 7.5 with the Application Request Routing and URL Rewriting modules to act as a reverse proxy for several apache-based web sites, including VisualSVN Server. I'm having a problem when I try ...
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Web Development with SVN

I am running VisualSVN Server on my server, and I have TortoiseSVN installed on both my dev PC and my server. I want to be able to push through updates to the website over SVN without manually ...
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Visual SVN server Running but cannot access / browse repositories

Operating System: Windows Web Server 2008 R2 Visual SVN Version: 2.5.7 Subversion: 1.7.7 Apache: 2.2.22 I freshly installed the Visual SVN latest version on the server and created one repository in ...
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How to move all source code over when it was on VisualSVN Server on Vista and migrating to Windows 7?

[i asked on Stackoverflow but maybe this forum is more proficient in this matter:] I had VisualSVN Server running perfectly on a Windows Vista machine, and then now it is to run Windows 7 on that ...
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'svnlook' is not recognized as an internal or external command. VisualSVN server

I have VisualSVN running on a Windows 2003 64 bit server. I'm storing my repository on a NAS and using UNC path. The problem comes in when using svnlook in a hook bat file. I get: 'svnlook' is not ...
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Installing VisualSVN when Apache is already installed

Is there any way I can install VisualSVN not installing Apache? The thing is that I already have Apache installed in the same server, so I want VisualSVN to use that Apache installation. By the way: ...
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Restrict WebSVN Access to Windows Users in Specific Domain

I am trying to install WebSVN on top of a VisualSVN install. VisualSVN is set up to use windows authentication, with users from domains CLIENT and DEV getting access to different areas of the site. ...
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VisualSVN for Linux

I'm looking for an application like VisualSVN in order to manage repositories and also User Access. For example you can create users and assign them to specific projects. It doesn't matter which ...
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Cannot access Network Shares on Windows Server 2008 running VisualSVN Server

I have installed VisualSVN server on Windows Server 2008. The server is part of a domain but not the domain controller, it is just a data server and now an SVN server. VisualSVN uses port 80 and can ...
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ASP.NET directories blocked from VisualSVN Server behind reverse proxy in IIS 6

I’ve got VisualSVN Server running behind a reverse proxy in IIS 6, Windows Server 2003. This isn’t ideal, but for the main web app on the server I’ve only got one IP address and SSL certificate ...
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SVN Corrupted, need to move with history

We have had a problem with out svn repo, it contains everything so is extremely important. When we ran a dump we would get the error message svnadmin: E200002: Serialized hash malformed This is ...
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VisualSVN Server , Windows 7 and Apache Problem

I am running Visual SVN Server(with Apache) on a Windows 7 computer and network. After about 15-20 minutes of my first commit/update, I am unable to access the repository via Tortoise SVN. The error ...
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How do I get the Active Directory user ID?

Firstly, I don't even know whether the "user ID" is the correct term here. The context is that I'm using VisualSVN Server to manage / administer access rights on my SVN repositories with Windows ...
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VisualSVN server visible on internet, but not all subcommands work on client

So my boss is a nice guy who's open to trying new ideas, and I talked him into letting me start new projects on svn (instead of an older version control system). At this time, we've realized that it's ...
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Subversion connection error for 64 bit clients

I'm not a sys-admin but I apparently have to play one on TV. I did however convince my workplace to start using version control and therefore get to be the one to administer it. The catch is I have to ...
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Backup of VisualSVN [duplicate]

I've got installed a VisualSVN in a Windows Server 2003 (it has just a drive C: with 10GB) I'm planning to backup a VisualSVN server in this way: Make a disk image with Ghost or some other ...
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Can Windows Backup and Restore safely backup an SVN repository?

I'm using VisualSVN to host a repository on a server that is backed up nightly using Windows' built in Backup and Restore functionality. Is this sufficient or do I need to create a separate task to ...
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Export VisualSVN users

I'm using VisualSVN server. Since one of the hosted repositories is moving to a different server, I'd like to export a table of users with their password hashes and import it at the new location. ...
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Problem with Email Notifications in VisualSVN Server

I have a dedicated server running windows 2003 server and Visual SVN Server 2.0.8. I'm trying to configure it to send email notifications on commit. So I found this article on Visual SVN site. It ...
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How do you access physical VisualSVN server files?

I'm wondering how you access the physical files that have been committed to a svn repository? I set my svn repository to D:\repositories at installation and for some reason, I can't find or see any of ...
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Moving a VisualSVN repository to a remote UNC share

I’m attempting to move our repository to a network file share (using a UNC Path) but I am getting the following error when starting the server: Invalid file path //SERVERNAME/SVN/Repositories/authz-...
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VisualSVN Server installation fails with error "Cannot query proxy blanket: No such interface supported"

VisualSVN Server installation fails with the following error message: Custom action InstallWMISchemaExcute failed: Cannot query proxy blanket: No such interface supported (0x80004002).
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How can I enter files containing '[' or ']' into VisualSVN's authz file?

I'm using VisualSVN to serve several SVN repositories, and it uses Windows authentication to control access. Some of the files have the [ and ] characters, and spaces, in their names. Changing their ...
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Handling username changes in Subversion server with Windows Authentication

I have a Subversion server (version 1.7.2) that is fronted by Apache 2.2.21 using basic Windows/Active Directory authentication. Really it's just using the Visual SVN Server 2.5 package with Windows ...
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Should I migrate from VisualSVN to Collabnet Subversion Edge?

I have just learned that Collabnet has released a single installer package containing SVN, Apache and visualVC. It has LDAP authentication and remote management among other features. For the moment, ...
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VisualSVN Server displays SIDs instead of human-readable domain user names

I'm running VisualSVN Server on a machine which is a member of a domain (it's Windows Server 2008 R2). Now I'm trying to grant myself permissions to access a repository. I right-click on Repository ...
Anton Gogolev's user avatar
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Visual SVN + CC.Net on Windows Server 2003. Can't get it work

I've been trying like crazy to get Visual SVN and Cruise Control to work and am getting nowhere fast. The latest error I'm running into is the "invalid certificate. not from a trusted site" since ...
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VisualSVN Server: Provider encountered an error while streaming a REPORT response

I am using a VisualSVN. Today I have reinstall the OS (Win2003 R2) and then install VisualSVN on it. I have imported repositories, check access with browser, everythig looks fine. After that I tried ...
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Jenkins with subversion plugin using AD athentication

I'm configuring a Jenkins instance installed as a windows service. In order to download the source code, I would like to use the subversion plugin, but I'm getting an authentication error when I add ...
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How can I transfer SVN repositories from VisualSVN Server (Windows) to Apache SVN (Linux) correctly?

My goal is to transfer old SVN repositories from a Windows VisualSVN server to a Linux Apache SVN server. The first step was to make a dump of all the repositories with the svnadmin dump command. ...
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Discovering IP restrictions in Visual SVN Server - Access denied from new IP

I have an installation of Visual SVN (Server Standard Edition, C 2007-2016) that I have inherited, and I am trying to give a new programmer remote access and having some difficulty. It is installed on ...
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Download URL for HEAD revision of a file in VisualSVN

With VisualSVN server, you can get a direct download link like this: http://myserver/!svn/ver/15/file.txt by navigating to the page for a speicfic file and clicking download. Is there a simple url ...
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svn diff returns E175009 after ~25 minutes

I'm attempting to map an SVN repo into Fisheye/Crucible for use with the code reviews feature. I'm running into issues with one of the commands Fisheye runs, but the source of the trouble seems to ...
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Is it possible to integrate Trac with VisualSVN Server 3?

In older versions of the VisualSVN server, it was possible to integrate the Trac bugtracking system using a plugin found here: https://www.visualsvn.com/server/trac/ Unfortunately, now this page just ...
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Visual Svn Server: How to restrict edit by specified IP Address

I want to enable only a specific IPAddess to edit (add, delete, update...) my visual svn server, but all others IPAddess must be able to read... I believe it is necessary a change like this in the ...
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Simple SVN post-commit hook for Jenkins on Windows Server 2008

I have VisualSVN Server holding several repos with PHP applications on Windows Server 2008 machine. I need to figure out how to deploy PHP scripts to production machines (2 Windows servers + 1 Linux/...
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VisualSVN Server Manager: WMI access denied

I have VisualSVN Server 2.1.10 installed on Windows Server 2003 with Subversion authentication. I works fine however from some time when I open VisualSVN Server Manager locally I get error WMI ...
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