Continuous Integration environment with svn on linux

On my previous post I wrote a way I used to create a CI environment that'd export the entire application to a web location after each commit. I was working then for windows. Now, I have created a setup for Linux - with addition this time the post-commit will only update those files that are actually committed. Following is the post-commit script I got on Stackoverflow:

	#!/bin/sh
	REPOS="$1"
	REV="$2"
	# A - Item added to repository
	# D - Item deleted from repository
	# U - File contents changed
	# _U - Properties of item changed; note the leading underscore
	# UU - File contents and properties changed
	# Files and directories can be distinguished, as directory paths are displayed with a trailing "/" character.
	LOOK=/usr/local/svn/bin/svnlook
	SVN=/usr/local/svn/bin/svn
	DEV=/var/www/test
	cd /location/to/your/svnrepo
	for changes in `$LOOK changed $REPOS | awk '{print $1 "=" $2;}'`;
	do
	len=${#changes}
	idx=`expr index "$changes" =`;
	directory=${changes:$idx};
	action=${changes:0:$idx-1};
	if [ ${changes:len-1} = '/' ]
	then
	case "$action" in
	"A" ) \
	mkdir --mode=775 -p $DEV/$directory;
	chown nobody:nobody $DEV/$directory;
	chmod 775 $DEV/$directory;
	;;
	"D" ) \
	rmdir $DEV/$directory;
	;;
	esac
	else
	case "$action" in
	"A"|"U"|"UU" ) \
	$SVN export --force --non-interactive -r HEAD -q file://$REPOS/$directory;
	BASE=`basename $directory`;
	DIR=`dirname $directory`;
	chown nobody:nobody $BASE;
	chmod 775 $BASE;
	mkdir --mode=775 -p $DEV/$DIR;
	cp -f --preserve=ownership $BASE $DEV/$DIR;
	unlink $BASE;
	;;
	"D" ) \
	rm -f $DEV/$directory;
	;;
	esac
	fi
	done
	exit 0

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Reference:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/446518/using-svn-post-commit-hook-to-update-only-files-that-have-been-commited
• You can check another neat tool that does similar automation using php : svn2web

php redirect losing sessions on Chrome/IE issue resolved

My new CodeIgniter app was working beautifully locally - everything's just fine. But when I uploaded to the demo location online - I found I can't login !! After debugging it is discovered - after checking the user credentials and setting the sessions when I was redirecting to the dashboard the user- session was getting lost !

Started with googling for a while and following is the link I got people were suggesting couple of fixes :

http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/178904/

Unfortunately, this din solve my issue. I was still getting lost sessions. And finally, [I don remember where I saw someone was suggesting to check the server time] I checked my server time and yes, it was certainly not right - around 5 hours late from the time as it was supposed to be. Fixed the time with the following command [as it was a linux box] :

date +%T -s "10:13:13"

Then, tried login again and bingo - it is working cool.

Reference:

1. Linux commands to set dates and time