Version Control Systems/Subversion/Installation/CentOS-subversion http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/doc/user/svn-best-practices.html http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/INSTALL ---- Installing subversion on CentOS {code} 1. Install packages using yum yum install subversion mod_dav_svn 2. Prepare the repository. mkdir /var/www/svn cd /var/www/svn svnadmin create myrepo chown -R apache.apache myrepo 3. create user password ### First time: use -c to create the file ### Use -m to use MD5 encryption of the password, which is more secure htpasswd -cm /etc/svn-auth-file mpecher #adding more users: #htpasswd -m /etc/svn-auth-file sally 4. setup httpd.conf <Location /svn> DAV svn SVNParentPath /var/www/svn #commenting the limit below will block all access #<LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT> AuthType Basic AuthName "Subversion repos" AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-file Require valid-user #</LimitExcept> </Location> CustomLog logs/svn_logfile "%t %u %{SVN-ACTION}e" env=SVN-ACTION 5. Now we are ready to restart httpd. service httpd restart {code} 2008-05-18 19:17:21.0 2008-05-18 13:37:46.0