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If you’re developing applications you will need a versioning tool sooner or later, even if you’re not working in a team. Its backup functions and the ability to review any changes on your code is something you never want to miss again. Since it’s not too easy to set up an SVN repository, here’s a step-by-step tutorial how I did on my virtual server.  I basically followed this german tutorial from the ubuntuusers.de wiki.

Installing the necessary packages

sudo apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn

Make directories for your repository

The following is just an example, you can change your directory but remember to keep your directory through this tutorial.

sudo mkdir -p /var/www/svn/myproject

Create repository via svnadmin tool

sudo svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /var/www/svn/myproject

Change ownership of this directory to your default apache user

By default this is www-data:www-data on Ubuntu

sudo chown -R user:group /var/www/svn/myproject

Optional: Setting permissions of the directory

If you face a “permission denied” error when doing your initial import later, you have to change the permissions for this directory

sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/svn/myproject

Add a location to your dav_svn.conf

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

and add the following entry:

<Location /myproject>
  DAV svn
  SVNPath /var/www/svn/myproject
 
 # Add this if you want committers to authenticate themselves
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "Subversion Repository"
  AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/my.passwd
 
  # The following three lines allow anonymous read, but make
  # committers authenticate themselves.
  <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
    Require valid-user
  </LimitExcept>
</Location>

Create a password file for commiters

htpasswd2 -c /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd user

Restart your server

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Congratulations! Point your browser to http://yourserver.com/myproject and enjoy your SVN repository!

Volker Uncategorized SVN, Ubuntu