How to Setup Simple SVN server, Expose it via DAV with Apache2 Over SSL in Ubuntu

In this Post I will explain you how to install subversion and expose it via Apache2 server while enabling SSL. So I have blogged on how to install Apache2 and enable SSL here. So As a prerequisite follow the above blog and install Apache2 server and configure SSL.

So lets install and configure subversion with Apache2.

Installing Subversion

First update Ubuntu repositories

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Now install Subversion

sudo apt-get install subversion

After installing you can verify the installed version by executing the following command

svn --version

Now create a directory and navigate to that directory

mkdir ~/svn
cd ~/svn

By executing following create a new SVN repository

svnadmin create svnqarepo

Now changer ownership of the directory

1	sudo chown -R www-data:www-data *

change permission of the directory

chmod 755 -R *

Configure Apache2 with SVN

First lets install SVN related packages to Apache2

sudo apt-get install libapache2-svn

Install extra Packages that are required

sudo apt-get install apache2-utils

Note: apache2-utills are required to htpasswd when adding users

Now Open /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf and add the following

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<Location /svn> DAV svn SVNPath /home/ubuntu/svn/svnqarepo AuthType Basic AuthName "myproject subversion repository" AuthUserFile /etc/subversion/passwd Require valid-user </Location>

Now lets add users, to add initial users execute the following 

sudo htpasswd -c /etc/subversion/passwd wso2qauser

Execute following command and restart Apache server

sudo a2enmod dav_svn

sudo service apache2 restart

Type the password when password is asked. Now you should be able to access the SVN repository with the following URL

http://<HOST_NAME>/svn
https://<HOST_NAME>/svn

When you access the URL it will be like following, and username/password should be entered when accessing the repository.

Now you are done configuring the server, Please drop a comment if you have queries. :)