Installing sventon

These instructions are for sventon 2.5.x

Prerequisites SVNKit

Java SE 6 or later.
A servlet container supporting Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0, such as Tomcat 6.0 or later.
A Subversion repository.
sventon installation file.

Prequisites JavaHL In addition to the items above:

Subversion client with JavaHL bindings must be installed on your system.

sventon installation

Drop the svn.war file in the webapps install folder on the server (in Tomcat this directory is called webapps).
Point your browser to http://<host>/svn and follow on-screen instructions to configure sventon.
Browse repository.

Configuration files

The sventon configuration files and logs are by default stored in the servlet container's temp directory, in Tomcat this is <tomcat home>/temp.

The following FAQ entries describe how to change the location of these files:

Upgrading

Some upgrades are drop-ins, others require that cache indices are rebuilt. Refer to the file upgrade.txt in the distribution package for further info.

Installation issues

If you run Jetty 6.x and get an error like this:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /WEB-INF/tags/
clickableUrl.tag(23,2) PWC6340: According to the TLD, rtexprvalue is
true, and deferred-value is specified for the attribute items of the
tag handler org.apache.taglibs.standard.tag.rt.core.ForTokensTag, but
the argument for the setter method is not a java.lang.Object 
[...]

There is a version conflict with the standard.jar shipping with Jetty. The easiest way seem to be to simply delete the file standard.jar from sventon's /WEB-INF/lib directory.

If you run JBoss 5.1.0 you will get an error:

There is a version conflict with the standard.jar and jstl.jar shipping with JBoss. The easiest way seem to be to simply delete the file standard-1.1.2.jar and jstl-1.1.2.jar from sventon's /WEB-INF/lib directory.

Uninstalling

See FAQ entry How do I uninstall sventon?

Security

For production use, you may want to read up on sventon security.