CVS on Rabelais

Configured as in StandardCvs.

viewcvs

Viewcvs allows web browsing of a cvs repository and downloading of tarballs, if enabled.

To install it from source:

tar zxf viewcvs-0.9.2.tar.gz
cd viewcvs-0.9.2
sudo ./viewcvs-install

It will ask you where you want to install ViewCVS; say /usr/local/viewcvs.

Edit the file /etc/viewcvs/viewcvs.conf, and set the option:

cvs_roots = Development: /usr/local/cvsroot

To fix a cross-site scripting vulnerability in viewcvs (along with a bug in the use of enscript, described below), apply the patch in viewcvs.py.diff (which is based on the one found here):

cd /usr/local/viewcvs/lib
sudo cp viewcvs.py viewcvs.py.orig
sudo patch < /path/to/viewcvs.py.diff

enscript

GNU Enscript is replacement for Adobe's enscript program. It converts ASCII files to PostScript and stores generated output to a file or sends it directly to the printer. It includes features for "pretty-printing" (language sensitive code highlighting) in several programming languages, which is what viewcvs uses it for.

Install it with:

sudo apt-get install enscript

Edit the file /etc/viewcvs/viewcvs.conf to enable enscript:

use_enscript = 1
enscript_path =  /usr/bin/

That should give you syntax highlighting, not a very good one though, as implemented by enscript.

cvsgraph

Cvsgraph is a utility to make a graphical representation of all revisions and branches of a file in a CVS/RCS repository.

Install it with:

sudo apt-get install cvsgraph

Edit /etc/viewcvs/viewcvs.conf to enable cvsgraph:

use_cvsgraph = 1
cvsgraph_path =  /usr/bin/

Making a virtual host

Make a virtual host cvs.example.org for your CVS repository:

sudo mkdir /var/www/cvs.example.org
cd /var/www/cvs.example.org
sudo mkdir logs cgi-bin
cd cgi-bin
sudo ln -s /usr/local/viewcvs/cgi/viewcvs.cgi viewcvs.cgi
sudo ln -s /usr/local/viewcvs/cgi/query.cgi viewcvs-query.cgi

The corresponding virtual host definition is:

<VirtualHost 10.0.0.243:80>
  ServerAdmin webmaster@example.org
  DocumentRoot /var/www/cvs.example.org
  ServerName cvs.example.org
  ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cvs.example.org/cgi-bin/
  Alias /viewcvs/ /usr/share/viewcvs/
  ErrorLog /var/www/cvs.example.org/logs/error.log
  CustomLog /var/www/cvs.example.org/logs/access.log common

  <IfModule mod_alias.c>
    RedirectMatch ^/$ http://cvs.example.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi
  </IfModule>

  # Prevent 'Cross-Site Tracing' attacks
  # (http://www.apacheweek.com/issues/03-01-24#news)
  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)
    RewriteRule .* - [F]
  </IfModule>
</VirtualHost>