Help with post-commit hook for updating a web site

[Fabio Serra <fa...@opentur.it>]

I'm not a Linux sysadmin so I have some problems with a post-commit hook 
for updating a web site.
I need to automatically update a web site after every commit, so I 
created a working copy on the web server and followed all tips written in:
http://arstechnica.com/columns/linux/linux-20050406.ars

I created the small C script with setuid, I tried with sudo and I tried 
with a simple post-hook script too. All these solutions failed. The 
post-commit works if it is launched from the console by root or by any 
other users who owns the working copy, but when It is executed by SVN it 
doesn't work, but failed silently. I mean that the script is called by 
apache but the update doesn't work. I did the initial checkout using 
http:// and file:// either, but I didn't succeed.
I suspect that the problem is with the apache user that doesn't have a 
shell or a password.
Here are my attempts:
post-commit

/usr/local/bin/update-dev >>/tmp/logsvn_2.txt
#/usr/bin/svn update /vol1/htdocs/igp_web_temp >> /tmp/log_update_svn.txt

Do you have any advice?
Finally, what I need to understand is:
- the initial checkout in the web server should be done by the apache 
user or can I do the checkout with another user and after do chown 
apache.apache?
- is there any way to catch the errors returned by svn update? The file 
redirect > /tmp/log_update_svn.txt is created by apache but it is always 
void.

Thanks in advance.



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Re: Help with post-commit hook for updating a web site

[Fabio Serra <fa...@opentur.it>]

Phil Endecott wrote:

>Fabio Serra <fa...@opentur.it> wrote:
>  
>
>>/usr/local/bin/update-dev >>/tmp/logsvn_2.txt
>>    
>>
>
>I think that will only redirect stdout, not stderr.
>You might like to try something like this (the exact syntax depends on the shell):
>
>/usr/local/bin/update-dev 2>&1 >> /tmp/logsvn_2.txt
>
Thanks, it doesn't solve my problem, anyway after 2 days I found the error.
I had a file in the project with an accented letter in his name: 
pubblicità.html :-(
svn on linux failed silently.



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Re: Help with post-commit hook for updating a web site

[Phil Endecott <sp...@chezphil.org>]

Fabio Serra <fa...@opentur.it> wrote:
> /usr/local/bin/update-dev >>/tmp/logsvn_2.txt

I think that will only redirect stdout, not stderr.
You might like to try something like this (the exact syntax depends on the shell):

/usr/local/bin/update-dev 2>&1 >> /tmp/logsvn_2.txt

--Phil.


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