Setting Up a Secure Subversion Server With Apache in Ubuntu

If you have not read theApache HTTPS, read it before you go through this post.

“Subversion (SVN) is a version control system initiated in 1999 by CollabNet Inc. It is used to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly-compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS).” -Wikipedia

Steps are pretty easy now: _**Step 1:**_ **Get subversion and Subversion modules for Apache2** **sudo apt-get install subversion subversion-tools libapache2-svn**

Step 2: Creating repository and setting permissions

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

P.S: test is the name of the repo

Step 3: Configure Apache to detect the svn edit /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf See the sample file that is attached

Step 4: use -c option for the first users**sudo htpasswd -c /etc/subversion/test.passwd hemanth sudo htpasswd /etc/subversion/test.passwd ubuntu**

Step 5: Reload Apache sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Now check your https://localhost/svn it must say revision 0

Checking out and adding files to svn svn co https://localhost/svn/test test —username hemanth It will prompt you for your password before checkout cd test $ echo ‘Hello, g33k’ > hello.txt svn add hello.txt svn commit -m “Added my first file”

That’s it, now you can refresh you page to see the new file. **Now download this book:svnbook(click) **