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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. It provides a dumb
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server facility as well as additional capabilities which allow the version of
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bzr that accompanies this documentation to perform some operations much faster
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than via dumb servers. In future releases of bzr the range of operations that
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are improved by using the high-performance server will increase.
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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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(https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/109143).
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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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4155 stream tcp nowait bzruser /usr/bin/bzr /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/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 on its official port number of `4155` and listens on all
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interfaces. This allows connections from anywhere in the world that can reach
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your machine on port `4155`.
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bzr serve --directory=/srv/bzr/repo
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bzr log bzr://host/branchname
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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://localhost:1234/branchname