Configure proxy server to get updates

If your Subversion Edge server uses a proxy server to reach the Internet, you need to configure the proxy server to be able to install updates from the web console.

There are different ways to do this, but the recommended one is to set up the following system-wide environment variable.

Variable name: http_proxy
Variable value: protocol://username:password@hostname:port, where
- protocol: can be either https or http, depending on whether the server uses SSL or not
- username:password: used for authentication with the proxy server, usually provided by the proxy server administrator
- hostname: host name or IP address of the proxy server
- port: port number used for the protocol selected

Tip: For users behind an ISA proxy with NTLM authentication: If, for example, you need to prefix the user name with the corresponding domain name -- domain\username -- you would need to escape the backslash character. Your variable value would be protocol://domain\\username:password@hostname:port.

To set the environment variable on Windows, go to Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables.
- Without authentication: Add a new system variable with name http_proxy and value protocol://hostname:port.
- With authentication: Add a new system variable with name http_proxy and value protocol://username:password@hostname:port.
On Linux, uncomment the HTTP_PROXY variable in the csvn.conf file and set it as follows:
- Without authentication: HTTP_PROXY=protocol://hostname:port
- With authentication: HTTP_PROXY=protocol://username:password@hostname:port
After you've set the environment variable, restart the server.