Hi, I've been running my own server for a while, but thought this was worth writing up, to hopefully save someone else the time.
http://autometa.degabrielle.name/2011/12/using-mac-os-x-as-fossil-scm-server.html --- Getting the Fossil SCM setup as a server on Mac OS X. This works on 10.7, but should work back to 10.4 AFAIK. Pre-requistites: - fossil binary somewhere on your system (I used ~/bin/fossil ) - a fossil repository (or repositories) in a folder (I used ~/fossil-repository ) The steps: 1. put the *org.fossil-scm.service.plist* file(below) in /Library/LaunchDaemons 2. change references to '/Users/spdegabrielle/'( ~/ ) to your own path 3. open Terminal and type the following: sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.fossil-scm.service.plist 4. open your browser to http://localhost:8081/reponame (I used 'projects' the name of my main repository as the default repository) For more info, check Creating Launch Daemons and Agents<http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Chapters/CreatingLaunchdJobs.html> . org.fossil-scm.service.plist Some explanation as to what is going on: - */Library/LaunchDaemons/* is where the .plist files defining 'User Daemons' that are launched as system startup are kept. Some other useful locations: ~/Library/LaunchAgents for each user, and /Library/LaunchAgents for all users. - KeepAlive Don't restart the service; this way of using fossil works by starting it in response to a request on port 8081. - Label org.fossil-scm.service names the service, so is can be started sudo launchctl load and stopped using sudo launchctl load - ProgramArguments /Users/spdegabrielle/bin/fossil http --localauth --notfound projects /Users/spdegabrielle/fossil-repository is the launchd way of saying fossil http --localauth --notfound projects /Users/spdegabrielle/fossil-repository The meanings of the arguments are as follows: - fossil http action the request coming from port 8081(in this case), provide the response and quit. (see fossil help http) - --localauth auto-sign-in if you are accessing fossil from your server directly with http://127.0.0.1:8081/ or http://localhost:8081/ (see fossil help http) - --notfound projects sets the default repository when specifying the repository location as a folder (next) rather than as a specific - /Users/spdegabrielle/fossil-repository is the respository location (--notfound projects sets the default) - RunAtLoad - Don't run it on load - it will be run on demand - inetdCompatibility causes launchd will behave like inetd for the launched program -- -- Stephen De Gabrielle
org.fossil-scm.service.plist
Description: Binary data
_______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
