Hi again after a long long long time I decided to send a new post! surprise surprise…

recently i again started playing with vps an needed to install svn server. as my clumsy friend huseyin massed up with permissions i wanted this post to stay in my blog so he can open and remember how to install svn server whenever he wants! (as far as he is online :))

first of all it should be noted that ubuntu is installed on a VPS and I connect it via a ssh client as ‘root’, but still I’ll use sudo for the sake of the post. My name is UMUT so I will create UMUT for the username and HUSEYIN for my clumsy friens, besides I will create the repository in /home/svn and only users with permissions can access to the repo.

here are the shell commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nano apache2 subversion libapache2-svn

• at this point it may ask you if you really want to install the packages, asnwer yes by pressing ‘Y’

htpasswd -cm /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd UMUT

• we created the file, it will ask you the password here, type the password

htpasswd -m /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd HUSEYIN

• as the file is created we dont put -cm but -c instead, it will ask for the pass of HUSEYIN, again type the pass,

nano /etc/apache2/dav_svn.authz

• copy and past the following 2 lines in order to give the read/write permission to everyone logged in the svn, and then ctrl+o to save and ctrl+x to exit

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* = rw

svnadmin create /home/svn

nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf

• a long file will show up, we need to uncomment (delete # ‘s) the following lines

<Location /svn>

DAV svn

SVNPath /home/svn

AuthType Basic

AuthName “Subversion Repository”

AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd

AuthzSVNAccessFile  /etc/apache2/dav_svn.authz

Require valid-user

#  SVNAutoversioning on

#  Satisfy Any

</Location>

cd /home/svn

mkdir dav

chmod -R 770 ./*

chown -R www-data:www-data ./*

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

keep in mind that you need to enter http://ip_or_site_name/svn as we defined in/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf

that’s all hope it works

ref: http://blog.ortimo.com/svn-serveron-ubuntu-11-04/257/