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For a student project we needed to authenticate an apache host against a MySQL database, in this a case we wanted to handle authentication for a Subversion repository with a Redmine database. I know that Redmine has its own solution for this problem using Redmine.pm, but for some reason that approach didn’t work and we didn’t have the time to bug around with it. This howto is written for the use with Redmine (especially the database view), but you should get the point how to set it up on other environments. The howto was done on an Ubuntu 8.10 box but should work on any other distro as well (except for the module installation). I assume that you got all the other stuff (apache, mysql, …) up and running.

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A simple script to create a new gitosis-repository on the fly. I’m not really familiar with bash scripting so don’t expect too much

#!/bin/bash
if [ -z $1 ]; then
    echo "Please specify a repository."
    exit 1
fi

if [ -z $2 ]; then
    echo "Please specify a remote url."
    exit 1
fi

if [ -d $1 ]; then
    echo "Repository already exists."
    exit 1
fi

mkdir $1
cd $1
git init
touch .gitignore
git add .gitignore
git commit -a -m "Initial commit."
git remote add origin $2:$1.git
git push origin master:refs/heads/master

Please make sure you set the correct permissions in gitosis.conf. Example:

[group me]
members = me@example.com
writable = test

Then you can run the script to create a new repository test on myhost.example.org:

$ gitosis-create-repo test git@myhost.example.org

Just wanted to give symfony a try and ran into some issues to set it up the way I wanted. Therefore I’d like to note the required steps.

First, install symfony via PEAR.

pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
pear install symfony/symfony-1.2.4

This sould install symfony and make the symfony executable available in your PATH.

~$ symfony -V
symfony version 1.2.4 (/usr/share/php/symfony)

Create a directory for your vhost and create a new project.

mkdir /var/www/myproject
cd /var/www/myproject
symfony generate:project myproject

Create an example application in your project.

symfony generate:app frontend

Link the symfony resources to the project’s document root.

cd web
ln -s /usr/share/php/data/symfony/web/sf/

This should get you up and running with symfony. You just need to configure your server for the vhost. For personal preference, I’d like to have my document root directory named public instead of web. The following steps are needed to achive this.

Rename the document root directory.

mv web public

Add this line to config/ProjectConfiguration.class.php:

public function setup()
{
    $this->setWebDir($this->getRootDir() . '/public');

    // for compatibility / remove and enable only the plugins you want
    $this->enableAllPluginsExcept(array('sfDoctrinePlugin', 'sfCompat10Plugin')$
}