Comments on: How to use TortoiseSVN to access Mediatemple subversion over svn+ssh

By: Dejan Vesić

Dejan Vesić — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:22:52 +0000

If you checked with Putty and all works fine, that leaves just simple connectivity issue.

Do you have maybe firewall / router with strict rules? I believe that for SSH you need to have traffic toward TCP/IP port 22 enabled.

By: Alok Jain

Alok Jain — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:05:45 +0000

I followed the steps but while Browsing repository for the first time i am getting error “Network error: Connection time out”

Any suggestion please?

By: web-creativite

web-creativite — Tue, 17 May 2011 14:32:12 +0000

Well, you are lucky because there is no space in your path so double quotes are not necessary.

By: Lesson 2: SVN | Blog City

Lesson 2: SVN | Blog City — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:54:33 +0000

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By: Dejan Vesić

Dejan Vesić — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:41:46 +0000

Well, you are lucky because there is no space in your path so double quotes are not necessary.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 16 May 2010 23:12:31 +0000

The main thing that went wrong with me was that when I passed the file name to putty.exe. It didnt like the double-quotes.

And gave the error:

“Unable to use key file “C:\Users\Dave\Documents\Keys\mt-svn
.ppk” (unable to open file)”

putty.exe -ssh -2 -i C:\Users\Dave\Documents\Keys\mt-svn
.ppk

By: Dejan Vesić

Dejan Vesić — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:42:37 +0000

Daniel, thanks for additional info.

By: daniel

daniel — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:34:12 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for a great post. Everything worked for me but connecting with TortoiseSVN. I’m using WinXP and couldn’t connect with TortoiseSVN at all even though PuTTY was fine. The problem was due to not creating a new Saved Session. For some reason TortoiseSVN doesn’t like it if the “Default Settings” in PuTTY are not blank. I’ve blogged about this here: http://blog.sitedaniel.com/2010/01/tortoisesvn-putty-mediatemple-gridserver-winxp-set-up/
Cheers

By: irms

irms — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:22:22 +0000

Very well done, thanks!!

By: jim

jim — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:53:15 +0000

fyi

i had to change the svn repos directory when accessing it with tortoisesvn:

in stead of
svn+ssh://serveradmin@yourdomain.com@yourdomain.com/home/12345/data/svn/myrep

i used
svn+ssh://serveradmin@yourdomain.com/home/12345/data/svn/myrep

By: Dejan Vesić

Dejan Vesić — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:07:57 +0000

Thank you very much for addition. Will add in main article.

By: Hi Dejan

Hi Dejan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:59:46 +0000

Hi Dejan,

Thanks for the tutorial: helped me a whole lot to set up SVN with TortoiseSVN.

One complement though: on the very last version of TortoiseSVN, I had to add -P 22 on the TortoisePLink command line for Network > Settings. Else, TortoisePlink would default to port 0 instead of 22 and it wouldn’t work.

Maybe you should complete the tutorial on this part.

regards
didier

By: Dejan Vesić

Dejan Vesić — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:30:36 +0000

I believe that over ssh you have to use public/private keys.

So, by analogy, try with different pairs of public/private keys, that should do the trick – I did not try myself that, to be honest.

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:01:50 +0000

Hi Dejan!
is the any way not to use public and private keys?
i tried just to type “svn+ssh://serveradmin@yourdomain.com@yourdomain.com/home/12345/data/svn/myrep” into repo-browser field and i was asked for username and password, but i couldn’t logg in. If using keys is the only way, could you suggest how to use several accounts to access repository? Should i create a few public/private key pairs?

By: Debugged Interactive Designs

Debugged Interactive Designs — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:44:22 +0000

We wrote a similar article for the DV 3.5 servers, enjoy : http://www.debuggeddesigns.com/blog/view/how-to-setup-a-subversion-svn-repo-on-a-media-temple-dv-3.5-server

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:56:22 +0000

Hi Dejan !
Thanks very much for the explanation!
We will try again and see what happens and let you know
Thanks very much
Kind regards
Mike

By: Dejan Vesić

Dejan Vesić — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:23:42 +0000

It is expected that pwd give different path – that is internal {mt} path which will get translated properly.

Two things:

- make sure that you have latest TortoiseSVN; some older versions had problem with svn+ssh

- use whole line from Settings / Network, copy it to command prompt, append domain.com at the end and test; it should ask you for username (enter serveradmin@domain.com) and if all ok, nothing else.

If it asks you for Password that something is wrong with key (check path).

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:21:20 +0000

Hi Dejan
Thanks for the time you have taken to publish this really helpful article.
I’m stuck on one thing
When I do pwd in the repository directory I get
/home/xxxxxx/users/.home/data/svn/prema

svn+ssh://serveradmin@domain.com@domain.com/home/65009/data/svn/prema

Doesn’t seem to work, nor with the full path indicated above
- Have created the public key / private key
- transferred private to MyDocs,
- Putty logs in from the command line as mentioned
Tortoise errors with
“Network Connection Closed Unexpectedly”
I’d be grateful for any tips !
Kind regards and thanks again
Mike

By: Dejan Vesić

Dejan Vesić — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:48:08 +0000

Will leave it – it just give more info for others Space is cheap

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:45:32 +0000

Never mind. Delete this and my first comment. It all works. Not sure where it went wrong the first time.

By: Dejan Vesić

Dejan Vesić — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:14:44 +0000

1. Create keys on server, both public and private; use PuttyGen just to CONVERT (not create) PRIVATE one (id_dsa) to Putty format (mt-svn.ppk)

2. No. Leave JUST public key there, id_dsa.pub, renamed to authorized_keys

Also, verify that permission on this file is 606.

3. Yes, it is; there are other versions mentioned ( serveradmin%yourdomain.com@yourdomain.com ) but above works just fine for me.

What happened when you tested connection as suggested above?

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:53:08 +0000

Great tutorial. I followed it but it’s not wokring. It just keeps asking me for the passwords.

So I have a few questions:
1. Do I have to create key from within PuTTy, or can I use puttygen.exe for this?
2. Does both files (private and public) need to reside in /.home/.ssh folder?
3. Is it correct to use “serveradmin@yourdomain.com@yourdomain.com” in the path name?