Installing subversion (svn) and trac on a Centos 4.6, virtuoso VM running cPannel & WHM
Or, “how to cause yourself much pain and mental anguish by inflicting silly challenges on yourself when you should really be getting some sleep”
cPannel supports apache2 now. svn needs apache2, so all is good. Or so you would think.
When installing SVN on VPS’ such as Virtuozzo, you may find that the process of creating the repository hangs, due to a lack on entropy with /dev/random. It is therefore a better bet to actually develop and use SVN outside of the VPS realm, using a dedicated box.[1]
Nice. Entropy. (I’m getting visions of Oliver Ridge, my old physics teacher, who used to fix computers with his bare hands, and a big box of resistors. Seriously, someone once gave him a broken hard disk, and he gave it back a week later. It had about ten extra components soldered to the pcb and worked better than it had originally. The man was a genius.)