In Case You Need My Code Scraps

Since rejiggering my domain recently, I’d been running code.al3x.net on Collaboa, a Rails-based Trac clone. However, the Collaboa project doesn’t 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 can’t 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.