The objective is to install subversion on my Ubuntu Dapper desktop in order to support version control for day to day projects.

Will use Apache 2 as uniform access control for security reasons, and in order to make this box a subversion server in my home office network.

Installation with Synaptic

• subversion package
• libapache2-svn package

Create repository

victorkane@mentor:~$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/svn
Password:
victorkane@mentor:~$ sudo svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /var/lib/svn

Create password file

victorkane@mentor:~$ sudo htpasswd2 -cm /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd victor
New password:
Re-type new password:
Adding password for user victor
victorkane@mentor:~$

Apache 2 HTTP Server configuration

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

First off, see Viva Vim 7! (installing on Ubuntu Dapper) .

Second off, see Konqueror with Midnight Commander theme on Ubuntu . Now we're all on the same page, with Konqueror (in all its variations) and Vim 7 installed.

Also assumed here is the installation of the ExuberantCtags package, so that ctags can be generated for ruby, php, python, perl, and a host of other languages (see ExuberantCtags) as well as the C language. On my Ubuntu box installation was straightforward with Synaptic.

The main interest here is using (and remembering how to use in between actual programming bouts: different projects hook you on different tool sets) Vim 7 as a lightweight alternative to Eclipse.

That may sound like a mouthful, but we'll see it is not an exaggeration.

To make a favicon in Debian linux or Ubuntu (in my case):

• Install the package xpm2wico with Synaptic or apt-get.
  An Xpm to Windows .ico converter
• Using Gimp, Capture and shrink or create/edit a 16x16 graphic.
• Save your image in X PixMap Image (xpm) format.
• Convert from xpm to favicon name and format: "xpm2wico favicon.xpm favicon.ico".
• Copy favicon.ico to convenient place, then add the following to a webpage:
  

  <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

1. See following tutorials:

a. http://drupal.org/node/43783

b. http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/136

2. Case where drupal is not installed into the apache document root, but rather in a subdirectory, it is necessary to so specify in two places:

1. /var/www/drupal/.htaccess

  # Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory and 
  # the rewrite rules are not working properly.

 RewriteBase /drupal

2. /var/www/dsn/sites/default/settings.php 

     /** * Base URL (optional).
      * * If you are experiencing issues with different site domains,
      * uncomment the Base URL statement below (remove the leading hash sign)
      * and fill in the URL to your Drupal installation.
...
* * It is not allowed to have a trailing slash; Drupal will add it * for you. */ 

# $base_url = 'http://www.example.com'; // NO trailing slash! 
$base_url = 'http://localhost/drupal';

If you’re running Apache2 on Debian stable, in order to install the rewrite module you simply need to:

Although Synaptic has a drupal, it's very old!

Preparations

To go with the latest version, I first went with the pre-fork Apache 2, PHP 5 and MySQL 5.

Downloading Drupal

I then downloaded the latest stable drupal version (since I am interested in developing a software engineering platform and personal development environment capable of being moved to a shared hosting environment).

$ wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/drupal-4.7.3.tar.gz
--17:22:17--  http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/drupal-4.7.3.tar.gz
           => `drupal-4.7.3.tar.gz'
Resolving ftp.osuosl.org... 64.50.238.52, 64.50.236.52
Connecting to ftp.osuosl.org|64.50.238.52|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 484,988 (474K) [application/x-gzip]

100%[==============================================>] 
484,988       81.56K/s    ETA 00:00

17:22:24 (76.13 KB/s) - `drupal-4.7.3.tar.gz' saved [484988/484988]

Installing the files for Apache 2

I then copied everything into (in this case) /var/www/drupal-4.7.3, then made the symbolic link (see Drupal Clean URL's on Ubuntu Dapper ):