Tutorials and How-tos/Install Subversion with Apache

How to install Subversion (SVN) with Apache on your Bubba server

Log in to your Bubba server using SSH (On Windows use PuTTY and on Mac & Linux open a terminal and write ssh).

Gain root access (Linux talk for admin rights) with default password excito.
su

Change directory to /
cd /

First we need to install the actual SVN software from the repository.
We will use the default repository and install the version available there 1.5.1

apt-get install subversion
apt-get install libapache2-svn

mkdir /var/svn
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/svn

nano /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf
cat /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
first user
htpasswd -cm /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd user1
next user
htpasswd -m /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd user2

svnadmin create /var/svn/test
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/svn/test

# dav_svn.conf - Example Subversion/Apache configuration
#
# For details and further options see the Apache user manual and
# the Subversion book.
#
# NOTE: for a setup with multiple vhosts, you will want to do this
# configuration in /etc/apache2/sites-available/*, not here.

1. <Location URL> ... </Location>
   # URL controls how the repository appears to the outside world.
   # In this example clients access the repository as http://hostname/svn/
   # Note, a literal /svn should NOT exist in your document root.
   <Location /svn>

1. Uncomment this to enable the repository
   DAV svn

1. Set this to the path to your repository
   #SVNPath /var/lib/svn
   # Alternatively, use SVNParentPath if you have multiple repositories under
   # under a single directory (/var/lib/svn/repo1, /var/lib/svn/repo2, ...).
   # You need either SVNPath and SVNParentPath, but not both.
   SVNParentPath /var/svn
   SVNListParentPath on
   # Access control is done at 3 levels: (1) Apache authentication, via
   # any of several methods. A "Basic Auth" section is commented out
   # below. (2) Apache <Limit> and <LimitExcept>, also commented out
   # below. (3) mod_authz_svn is a svn-specific authorization module
   # which offers fine-grained read/write access control for paths
   # within a repository. (The first two layers are coarse-grained; you
   # can only enable/disable access to an entire repository.) Note that
   # mod_authz_svn is noticeably slower than the other two layers, so if
   # you don't need the fine-grained control, don't configure it.

1. Basic Authentication is repository-wide. It is not secure unless
   # you are using https. See the 'htpasswd' command to create and
   # manage the password file - and the documentation for the
   # 'auth_basic' and 'authn_file' modules, which you will need for this
   # (enable them with 'a2enmod').
   AuthType Basic
   AuthName "Subversion Repository"
   AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd

1. To enable authorization via mod_authz_svn
   #AuthzSVNAccessFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.authz

1. The following three lines allow anonymous read, but make
   # committers authenticate themselves. It requires the 'authz_user'
   # module (enable it with 'a2enmod').
   #<LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
   Require valid-user
   #</LimitExcept>

</Location>