Question

i’m working on a small project that might have an additional coder at some point – i’ve become to used to svn (which i started using very recently, through sourceforge) and want to use it for this project, without having to publish the code on the internet — which would happen if i were to add it a sourceforge project.

I have some hosting space (dreamhost) with shell access, and ideally i’d like a web-fronted version control s/w that i can install on my dreamhost account, and tinker away at my project wherever i happen to be.

there appear to be a number of possibilities (reviewboard.org, trac etc) that seem like they might work – but is there a simple barebones system somewhere that i can just quickly install without too much hacking?

thanks!

Answer 1

Dreamhost has native support for creating svn/trac instances right within their panel.

It’s under Goodies -> Subversion. Lets you choose the subdomain you want it installed on, set users and passwords and whether its hidden or publicly visible by default. There’s a checkbox for installing Trac, though you’ll have to go back in and lock that down if you don’t want your project publicly viewable, which should only take a few minutes to do on Google.

I use this setup for all of my projects and its quite nice.