tortoise svn and port number

[tara...@gmail.com]

Hi everyone

AFAIK tortoise uses port 3690 to communicate with the svn server. I'm
in China atm, and the svn server is in Australia. For some reason,
somewhere along the line (about the 6th hop in) port 3690 is getting
filtered (I checked using nmap). I'm aware that a svn server can be
setup somehow using Apache over port 80, which will not be blocked.
However, how do you get tortoise to communicate over port 80 rather
than port 3690?

Is it as simple as changing the prefix where you specify the location
of the server (eg: in the relocate server menu) from
svn://some.ip.address to http://some.ip.address?

Thanks for your time

Taras

[Marek TROFIMIUK]

tara...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> AFAIK tortoise uses port 3690 to communicate with the svn server. I'm
> in China atm, and the svn server is in Australia. For some reason,
> somewhere along the line (about the 6th hop in) port 3690 is getting
> filtered (I checked using nmap). I'm aware that a svn server can be
> setup somehow using Apache over port 80, which will not be blocked.
> However, how do you get tortoise to communicate over port 80 rather
> than port 3690?

It uses Apache web_dav module. Check svnbook for more details
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

> Is it as simple as changing the prefix where you specify the location
> of the server (eg: in the relocate server menu) from
> svn://some.ip.address to http://some.ip.address?

Yes, It's that simple (provided server is configured).
I recommend using ssl, i.e. port 443 and https prefix.

Btw, you can also use svn+ssh (secure port 22).

Regards,
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