<i><b>Step 1:</b></i>
<b>Get subversion and Subversion modules for Apache2</b>
<b>sudo apt-get install subversion subversion-tools libapache2-svn</b>
 
<i><b>Step 2:</b></i>
<b>Creating repository and setting permissions</b>
 
<b>sudo mkdir /var/svn
sudo svnadmin create /var/svn/test
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/svn/test
sudo chmod -R g+ws /var/svn/test</b>
 
<i>P.S: test is the name of the repo</i>
 
<i><b>Step 3:</b></i>
<b>Configure Apache to detect the svn</b>
<i>edit /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf</i>
<b>See the sample file that is attached</b>
 
<i><b>Step 4:</b></i>
<b> use -c option for the first users<b>
<b>sudo htpasswd -c /etc/subversion/test.passwd hemanth
sudo htpasswd /etc/subversion/test.passwd ubuntu</b>
 
<i><b>Step 5:</b></i>
<b>Reload Apache</b>
<b>sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload</b>
 
<i>Now check your <a href="https://localhost/svn" title="https://localhost/svn">https://localhost/svn</a> it must say revision 0</i>
 
<b><i>Checking out and adding files to svn</i></b>
<b>svn co <a href="https://localhost/svn/test" title="https://localhost/svn/test">https://localhost/svn/test</a> test --username hemanth</b>
<i>It will prompt you for your password before checkout</i>
<b>cd test $ echo 'Hello, g33k' > hello.txt</b>
<b>svn add hello.txt </b>
<b>svn commit -m "Added my first file"</b>
 
<b>That's it, now you can refresh you page to see the new file.</b>
<b>Now download this book:<a href=http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn-book.pdf>svnbook(click)</a>