In Case You Need My Code Scraps
Since rejiggering my domain recently, Id been running code.al3x.net on Collaboa, a Rails-based Trac clone. However, the Collaboa project doesnt seem to be going anywhere fast, despite an announcement of renewed activity. In response, a frustrated Collaboa user announced a fork called Retrospectiva, which I switched to a couple days ago.
Retrospectiva is quite full-featured for a beta release. It already goes a ways beyond Collaboa, and even Trac in some respects (the blog extension, for example). Retrospectiva isn’t production-ready, though, so for the time being code.al3x.net is simply serving up plain ol’ Apache-powered Subversion.
I’m so taken with Nginx that I decided to keep it as my public-facing HTTP server. I just run an Apache virtual host for Subversion on a high port and and tell Nginx to proxy to it like so:
server { listen 80; server_name code.al3x.net; location / { rewrite ^/ /svn/ permanent; } location /svn/ { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8010; } }The rewrite bounce on / is thanks to httpd stupidness: you cant serve up a repository index that plain Collection of repositories page you’ve probably seen around from Location / as best I can tell. Various attempts to Alias or Redirect in my Apache configuration didn’t prove fruitful, but Nginx works like a champ.
At some point I’ll move back to Retrospectiva or Trac or the like, but there’s simply not enough code there right now to worry about it.