There is many tools and tutorials shows how to setup SCM over HTTP. In my opinion the fastest and the cheapest way is to install Scm-Manager tool which allows to create, manage and expose over HTTP all common types of source code repositiories (Git, SVN).

Installation

This part of the guide comes from the official SCM-Manager bitbucket repository.

Important! For this tutorial purposes change default scm-manager HTTP port to 9092. The default scm-manager port is 8080 (default apache tomcat port). We are going to install few more tools based on apache tomcat, so to avoid conflicts, we will change every default ports configuration.

Debian linux family (i.a. Ubuntu)

Connect to your Ubuntu Server and run:

Important! This is temporary version of the script until SCM-Manager developers resolve their nexus server problem. The right script is below.

cd /tmp
wget http://maven.scm-manager.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases/sonia/scm/scm-server/1.46/scm-server-1.46-all.deb
sudo dpkg -i scm-server-1.46-all.deb

The right scritp – not working now!

echo "echo 'deb http://maven.scm-manager.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases ./' >> /etc/apt/sources.list" | sudo sh
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 D742B261
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install scm-server

Configuration

To change default SCM-Manager port 8080 to 9092 edit:

sudo nano /etc/default/scm-server

Find the line

# scm-server port
PORT=8080

and change port number to 9092

# scm-server port
PORT=9092

Restart service.

Starting, stopping and restarting SCM-Manager service in Ubuntu

sudo service scm-server start

sudo service scm-server stop

sudo service scm-server restart

Test SCM-Manager access

Verify the isntallation now. Open a browser and go:

http://SCM_MANAGER_IP:9092/

In my case:

http://192.168.1.56:9092/

LogIn. The default SCM-Manager login/password is : scmadmin/scmadmin

First Git repository

Add tutorial user

Go to users and add new user: tutorial/tutorial

Add permissions for All repositories to the tutorial user and press Enter key to save.

Create repository

Go to Repositories tab, Click add and create repository as below.

Your test repository is ready for work. Let’s checkout it somewhere.

cd /tmp
git clone http://SCM_MANAGER_IP:9092/scm/git/test

In my case:

cd /tmp
git clone http://192.168.1.56:9092/scm/git/test

Additionals

Post-Installation directory layout

/opt/scm-server         # Main directory for scm-server installation
/etc/default/scm-server # Default settings for scm-server
/etc/init.d/scm-server 	# Start script for scm-server
/var/cache/scm/work     # Cache directory
/var/log/scm            # Logging directory
/var/lib/scm            # SCM-Manager home directory

Redhat linux family (i.a. CentOS)

Create a file SCM-Manager.repo in yum repos directory.

su -
nano /etc/yum.repos.d/SCM-Manager.repo

Put the following content:

[scm-releases]
name=SCM-Manager Releases
baseurl=http://maven.scm-manager.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases
enabled=1
protect=0
gpgcheck=0
metadata_expire=30s
autorefresh=1
type=rpm-md

Save and exit to the shell. To install scm-server run as root:

yum install scm-server