Setup svn server on ubuntu

This post describes about setting up the svn server on ubuntu.

• Install Subversion

$ sudo apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn apache2

• Configure Subversion

Create a directory for where you want to keep your subversion repositories:

$ sudo mkdir /subversion

$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /subversion/

• Open the subversion config file dav_svn.conf (/etc/apache2/mods-available) and add the lines at the end as shown below. Comment or delete all the other lines in the config file:

#</Location>

<Location /subversion>

DAV svn

SVNParentPath /subversion

AuthType Basic

AuthName "Subversion Repository"

AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd

Require valid-user

</Location>

• Now create a SVN user using the following command. Here I create a new SVN user called sohani with password msc12345:

$ sudo htpasswd -cm /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd sohani

New password: 

Re-type new password: 

Adding password for user sohani

Use -cm parameter for the first time only, you can create another user with only -m parameter.

• Create Subversion repository called sohani.repo under /subversion directory:

$ cd /subversion/

$ sudo svnadmin create sohani.repo

Restart Apache service:

$ /etc/apache2 sudo service apache2 reload

• Open the browser and navigate to http://ip-address/subversion/sohani.repo. Enter the SVN username and password which you have created in the earlier step. In my case, username is sohani and password is msc12345.