SVN over HTTP

Hello there true believers, been a while since I’ve written something here.


A quick FYI on those wanting to use SVN but are restricted to use it from within a network with a proxy.
If you try using SVN over HTTP, it most likely won’t work by default since SVN uses a different network port (usually 3690 for *nixes) and HTTP proxies by default use 80 or 8080 as their ports.
If you try checking out or updating or committing to/from an SVN repo by default, you’ll run into a problem saying SVN couldn’t connect. Uh oh spaghetti-oh. 🙂
In my Ubuntu 10.04 machine, what I do is open (with sudo/root properties) the file:

/etc/subversion/servers

and uncomment (or add, if the following are not present) these parameters:

http-proxy-host = yourproxy.com
http-proxy-port = port

e.g.

http-proxy-host = 10.10.10.10
http-proxy-port = 8080

I save the file, then try SVN again. Voila. I’m back to coding again. 🙂

Reference/s:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/82530/svn-over-http-proxy
• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=696345

Tags: 10.04, coding, http, Linux, lucid lynx, proxy, subversion, svn, tech, Ubuntu