Configure Subversion with Apache web server on Ubuntu

Its easy to have a private subversion repository that you can access from anywhere, all you need:

1. Subversion
2. Apache Web server
3. Ubuntu (Soon i'll publish for Windows) 

Install Apache server on ubuntu

	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get install apache2

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make sure your Apache server is up and running 

Install subversion on ubuntu

sudo apt-get install subversion

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The above command installs subversion but in order to access your subversion via internet you need to configure your subversion with Apache. Subversion provides module to interact with Apache such as libapache2-svn, install the package using the following command:

sudo apt-get install libapache2-svn

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Subversion configuration

Create a subversion folder to hold all the repositories. 

sudo mkdir /var/lib/svn

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Once you create the subversion directory open and edit the subversion configuration file located in the "mods-enabled" in the "apache2" located in "etc" with following command.

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

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uncomment the following line in the dav_svn.conf file

	<location svn="svn">
	DAV svn
	SVNParentPath /var/lib/svn
	AuthType Basic
	AuthName "Subversion Repository"
	AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
	<location>

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Once the configuration finished. Create the user craditial to login to the subversion with the following command:

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

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 Restart the Apache server

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

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Create a simple subversion repository project

svnadmin create /var/lib/svn/myproject

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Once the project is created, change the permission of the project directory to enable the web user to read/write.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/lib/svn/myproject

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Done! Open the subversion repository by click this link  http://localhost/svn/myproject

So far you can access your subversion repository in the local network but you also can make it available to the wide area network with the domestic router and internet connection. I will be posting about it soon as possible.