How To Setup A Fossil Server
Fossil is a light-weight DVCS that can be easily used on the web through the brilliant web server nginx. Introduction If you've ever done professional software development, you already know that it is not possible without source control and issue tracking software. In this article, you will see how easy it is to setup a fully working Fossil DVCS server on a CentOS machine. FreeBSD users may find this guide (external) more useful. Installing Fossil To be able to use the latest Fossil version, we're going to install it from the source. Installing compile-timed requirements Fossil can use zlib and openssl (for HTTPS access). It can also be extended through a pseudo-macro mechanism using Tcl scripting language. Install all of them to enable all features -don't worry! They require only a tiny space and don't drag in a jungle of dependencies. # yum install zlib zlib-devel tcl tcl-devel openssl openssl-devel Compiling and installing fossil Obtain Fossil source from Fos...