Subversion Version Control System on Ubuntu Desktop

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

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

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:

# dav_svn.conf - Example Subversion/Apache configuration
#
# For details and further options see the Apache user manual and
# the Subversion book.

# <Location URL> ... </Location>
# URL controls how the repository appears to the outside world.
# In this example clients access the repository as http://hostname/svn/
<Location /svn>

  # Uncomment this to enable the repository,
  DAV svn

  # Set this to the path to your repository
  SVNPath /var/lib/svn

  # The following allows for basic http authentication.  Basic authentication
  # should not be considered secure for any particularly rigorous definition of
  # secure.

  # to create a passwd file
  # # rm -f /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd 
  # # htpasswd2 -c /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd dwhedon
  # New password: 
  # Re-type new password: 
  # Adding password for user dwhedon
  # #

  # Uncomment the following 3 lines to enable Basic Authentication
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "Subversion Repository"
  AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd

  # Uncomment the following line to enable Authz Authentication
  AuthzSVNAccessFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.authz

  # The following three lines allow anonymous read, but make
  # committers authenticate themselves.

#  <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
    Require valid-user
#  </LimitExcept> 

</Location> 

/etc/apache2/dav_svn.authz:

 [groups]
admin=manny, moe, jack
worlddomination=bill,henry,programmer
level2=programmer1, programmer2
guests=guest

[/]
@admin=rw

[svn:/worlddomination]
@worlddomination=rw

restart Apache 2 HTTP Server:

victorkane@mentor:~$ sudo apache2ctl restart