Use WebSVN as default HTML view

Hello *,

when opening an subversion URL like https://server.local/svn/reproname using a normal webbrowser I get a (not very nice but useful) webpage showing me the files of the highest revision of the repository.

Is it possible to change this HTML-view to use WebSVN instead? So I want to use the same URL for TortoiseSVN which then browses the repository using WebDAV and for browsing it with a webbrowser getting the nice interface of WebSVN.

I am using Apache 2.2 on an Win 2003 Server with mod_dav_svn.

Thanks in advance for any help.

sc911

From serverfault sc911

• I too tried to get it to work like this, but I don't think it's possible. According to this site, mod_dav_svn generates the html page you see, and it only supports simple skinning using xslt.

  What I did was use a new virtual host for my WebSVN content (eg https://websvn.server.local/svn/reponame).

  From Andrew Strong

• What about using mod_rewrite? You could do something like this:-

  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}          !^SVN.*
  RewriteRule ^/svn/(.*?)(/.*)$           http://websvn.host/websvn/listing.php?repname=$1&path=$2      [R]
  

  This should redirect any client that doesn't have a User-Agent string starting with 'SVN/' to a WebSVN installation at http://websvn.host/websvn/, and leave queries from SVN clients alone.

  Alexandre Jasmin : Interesting but it could break some third party svn clients

  Andrew Strong : Great idea! Didn't know this was possible.

  Andy Smith : Hi Alexandre, Yeah - I'm aware it could cause issues with some, but it's a start :-). If it's that much of a problem, you could flip the User-Agent stuff and only redirect to WebSVN if it positively matches for Mozilla or such.
  From Andy Smith

• Solved it with mod_rewrite as Andy suggested. I am using this set of rules now

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SVN.*
  RewriteRule (.*) - [S=3] 
  RewriteRule ^svn$ /svn/ [R,N]
  RewriteRule ^svn/$ /websvn/ [R,L]
  RewriteRule ^svn/(.*?)(/.*)$ /websvn/listing.php?repname=$1&path=$2 [R,L]
  

  This checks for the User-Agent to start with SVN (this is how Tortoise identifies) and then skips the next three rules.

  Those three rules are doing the following:

  • add the trailing slash to the svn-URL (not done automatically because svn is no directory)
  • redirect the direct access to the repository list
  • redirect direct repository view

  All this is done in the <Directory>-directive of the RootDir.

  Thanks Andy for this hint!

  sc911

  Andy Smith : No worries - glad it was useful :-)
  From sc911