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Running a Bazaar Server
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Bazaar does not require a specialised server because it operates over HTTP, FTP
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or SFTP. There is an optional smart server that can be invoked over SSH, from
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inetd, or in a dedicated mode.
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We describe HTTP, FTP, SFTP and HTTP-WebDAV as "dumb" servers because they do
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not offer any assistance to Bazaar. If you make a Bazaar repository available
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over any of these protocols, Bazaar will allow you to read it remotely. Just
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enter the URL to the branch in the Bazaar command you are running.::
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bzr log http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev
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Bazaar supports writing over FTP, SFTP and via a plugin over HTTP-WebDAV.
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High-performance server
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The high-performance server is currently in development. The version of Bazaar
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that accompanies this documentation is able to use the servers underlying
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protocol as a dumb server. This is the first stage high-performance server
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functionality to be delivered.
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To maintain the highest security possible, the current
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high-performance server provides read-only access by default. To
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enable read-write access, run it with ``--allow-writes``. When using
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the SSH access method, bzr automatically runs with with the
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``--allow-writes`` option.
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The server can be configured to run in three different ways:
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Using Bazaar over SSH requires no special configuration on the server::
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BZR_REMOTE_PATH=~/bin/bzr bzr log bzr+ssh://host/path/to/branch
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The ``BZR_REMOTE_PATH`` environment variable adjusts how `bzr` will be
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invoked on the remote system. By default, just `bzr` will be invoked,
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which requires the `bzr` executable to be on the default search path.
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The ``bzr+ssh://`` URL scheme only supports absolute paths from the
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root of the filesystem. Future versions are expected to support ``~``
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in the same way as ``sftp://`` URLs.
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This example shows how to run `bzr` with a dedicated user `bzruser`
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for a shared repository in ``/srv/bzr/repo`` which has a branch at
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``/srv/bzr/repo/branchname``.
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Running a Bazaar server from inetd requires an inetd.conf entry::
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1234 stream tcp nowait bzruser /usr/bin/bzr serve --inet --directory=/srv/bzr/repo
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When running client commands, the URL you supply is a `bzr://` URL relative to
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the ``--directory`` option given in inetd.conf::
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bzr log bzr://host:1234/branchname
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This mode has the same path and URL behaviour as the inetd mode. To
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run as a specific user, you should use ``su`` or login as that user.
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This example runs ``bzr serve`` on `localhost` port `1234`.
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bzr serve --port=localhost:1234 --directory=/srv/bzr/repo
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bzr log bzr://host:1234/branchname
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