Capistrano: Hide SVN Files
July 07, 2006 Do you use Capistrano to deploy your Rails app?Capistrano uses subversion to deploy rails applications. Unfortunately this means that the hidden subversion directories (usually .svn) are accessible via HTTP. To prevent the exposure of .svn files or directories you are strongly encouraged to add the following lines to your server configuration:
Apache:
# Don't expose .svn files/directories
<DirectoryMatch "^/.*/\.svn/">
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</DirectoryMatch>
Using a (mod_rewrite) rewrite rule:
RewriteRule \.svn/.* - [F]
Lighttpd:
$HTTP["url"] =~ "/\.svn/" {
url.access-deny = ( "" )
}