Today I will present how to install subversion server (+ repository) with the apache module and web access protected by password.

What is Subversion?

Subversion is an open source version control system. Using Subversion, you can record the history of source files and documents. It manages files and directories over time. A tree of files is placed into a central repository. The repository is much like an ordinary file server, except that it remembers every change ever made to files and directories.

Now… let’s fun.

Create SVN repository

I assume that you have apache installed.

First, make directory for SVN repository… I want to have my repository in ‘/home/svn’

sudo mkdir /home/svn
cd /home/svn
sudo mkdir myproject
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data myproject

Create SVN repository:

sudo svnadmin create /home/svn/myproject

Install everything

sudo apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn

Configure Apache

sudo vim /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf

Uncomment line:

DAV svn

Set SVNPath. The SVNPath line should be set to the same place your created the repository with the svnadmin command. So I have…

SVNPath /home/svn

Turn on authentication:

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion Repository"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
Require valid-user

Now save and close the file.

Create user on the repository. To do it – use the following command:

sudo htpasswd2 -cm /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd 

Note that you should only use the -c option the FIRST time that you create a user. After that you will only want to use the -m option, which specifies MD5 encryption of the password, but doesn’t recreate the file.

Restart apache:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

The end.
Everything should be ok right now. You should have an access to your SVN repository via web browser. Try to look at it via http://your_domain/svn.

If you don’t know any of SVN commands – learn them via this site or this one.

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