Concurrent Versions System Web Interface

Introduction

Contents

Introduction
Notes
Prerequisites
Installation
Configuration
See Also
External Links

CVSweb is a WWW interface for CVS repositories with which you can browse a file hierarchy on your browser to view each file's revision history in a very handy manner.

Notes

This documentation is accurate as of April 6, 2012. These steps have been performed on Ubuntu 10.04.4 Server systems and confirmed to work as described here.

Prerequisites

It's generally a good idea to start with a healthy, fully functioning, up-to-date system. This means that some combination of sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade, sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, and sudo apt-get autoremove should have been recently run. Please understand what the commands do before blindly running them as any system update has the potential to render a system inoperable.

I also had the Apache web server installed and functioning prior to installing CVSweb which is an important thing to note since cvsweb won't function without a properly installed and configered web server as it does not include one of its own.

Installation

To install CVSweb, simply run:

sudo apt-get install cvsweb

Configuration

Make a copy of the original cvsweb.conf file:

sudo cp /etc/cvsweb/cvsweb.conf /etc/cvsweb/cvsweb.conf.ORIGINAL

Now modify the cvsweb.conf file so that it looks like the following.

Before:

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@CVSrepositories = (
#       'freebsd' => ['FreeBSD',          '/var/ncvs'],
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After:

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@CVSrepositories = (
        'local'   => ['Local Repository', '/var/lib/cvs'],
#       'freebsd' => ['FreeBSD',          '/var/ncvs'],
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If the directory containing the cvsweb icons and css files is not in /var/www, you have to add a symbolic link:

sudo ln -s /usr/share/cvsweb /var/www/cvsweb

You can now access CVSweb on your server by browsing to:

http://server_url/cgi-bin/cvsweb

External Links

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CVSweb - FreeBSD CVSweb Project.
<Link> - Explanation of link.
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