Comments on: Installing Subversion as a Windows Service

By: mwawresz

mwawresz — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:52:17 +0000

There is mistake in the binPath. The path to the subversion server should be with –service option (instead of -service)

By: Eric S

Eric S — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:16:39 +0000

This was helpful! However something has decided to be “smart” about the quotes in your command line and made some of them curly. This was driving me crazy for the longest time as I had copied your command line to a command prompt and then tailored it for my parameters, but the curly quotes were indistinguishable from straight ones in the font there, and sc was erroring. It took me the longest time to figure out what was going on. When sc doesn’t like the syntax it gives ZERO information about what it doesn’t like.

Might I also suggest amending this article with a few useful tips:
1) point out SC’s weird space-after-but-not-before-the-equal-sign options syntax requirement
2) point out what the \” is about
3) point out that under Windows 7, even if your user is in the Administrators group, you still need to run the cmd.exe as Administrator in order to be allowed to run sc.

By: Jaymes B

Jaymes B — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:36:41 +0000

For Windows hosts (at least with Windows 7) you must included the –listen-host option with 0.0.0.0 as the IP (–listen-host 0.0.0.0). This was the only way that I could connect to the svn server from another machine.

If you did not include the –listen-host option, you can only connect to the svn on the machine running svnserve using svn://localhost/repo. If you try from another machine, you will receive a notice saying that the connection was actively refused. This same issue occurred when trying to connect from the localhost using svn://127.0.0.1/repo or that machine’s IP.

By: James

James — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:36:30 +0000

@jayaprakashreddy – SVNService is no longer necessary. Subversion has been shipping with svnserve.exe for a few years now, which performs the same function. You can find details here:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.serverconfig.svnserve.html

By: jayaprakashreddy

jayaprakashreddy — Tue, 25 May 2010 04:55:31 +0000

Hi,

How to download SVNService.zip?

any suggestions ?

By: c0p3rn1c

c0p3rn1c — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:38:33 +0000

For the vista issue, start your command line with admin right(right click, run as admin)

By: James Kovacs

James Kovacs — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:12:00 +0000

@Smeeghee – Your setup appears to be fine. Can you connect to the SVN server from another machine? What happens if you try svn://localhost/RepoName? Also note that if you connect to svn://Family-PC/subversion, svnserve will look for a dirctory caled f:\subversion\subversion. HTH.

By: Smeeghee

Smeeghee — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:38:55 +0000

Hi, I’ve been trying to get the service responding to local requests from Tortoise using svn://Family-PC/subversion. I set the service up as follows

sc create svn binpath= "C:\Progra~1\SlikSvn\bin\svnserve.exe –service -r f:\subversion" displayname= "Subversion Server" depend= Tcpip start= auto

Which looks to be what everyone is saying here. I’ve opened port 3690 in the firewall and checked the service is started using the service explorer in Vista. But I still get the ‘target machine actively refused’ error when trying to browse on the same machine as the repository using Tortoise.

Any info appreciated.

By: UA

UA — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:23:38 +0000

Thanks!

By: Mr wiggels

Mr wiggels — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:39:27 +0000

@Aaron’s comment.

Solution is just to run the command prompt as Administrator. [right click > choose > Run as administrator]