Install Subversion Server on Ubuntu

Subversion is a commonly used central version control system for software development. There are currently still a large number of organizations that rely upon it, many have since moved on to Git.

1. sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2-utils
2. sudo apt-get install subversion subversion-tools libapache2-svn
3. sudo mkdir /home/svn
4. svnadmin create /home/svn/test
5. Create a group for subversion users:
   sudo groupadd subversion
6. sudo adduser USERNAME
7. Add a user to the group:
   sudo useradd -G USERNAME subversion
8. sudo chown -R www-data:subversion /home/svn/test
9. sudo chmod -R g+rws /home/svn/test
10. sudo a2enmod dav_svn
11. To create/clobber a new file for the first user:
    sudo htpasswd -c /etc/apache2/.htpasswd YOURUSER
12. To add additional users:
    sudo htpasswd /etc/apache2/.htpasswd YOURUSER
    (repeat for new users without the -c as that creates/clobbers the file)
13. sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
    Then add to the bottom:
    (NOTE1: the LimitExcept can be enabled to allow anonymous access):
    (NOTE2: the LimitXMLRequestBody can be uncomment to allow large commits)
    
<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /home/svn
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion Repository"
# AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd
#LimitXMLRequestBody 0
#<LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
Require valid-user
#</LimitExcept>
</Location>

14. sudo service apache2 reload
15. sudo service apache2 restart

    NOTE: At this point you should be able to browse and do a remote checkout of the code from another machine….

    http://YOUR-IP-OR-HOSTNAME/svn
    and
    svn co http://YOUR-IP-OR-HOSTNAME/svn/test --username YOURUSER --password YOURPASS

16. sudo vi /etc/init/svnserve.conf
    Add the following:
    
# svnserve - Subversion server
description "Subversion server"
start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=lo and started udev-finish)
stop on runlevel [06]
chdir /home/svn
respawn
respawn limit 2 3600
exec /usr/bin/svnserve --foreground --daemon --config-file /home/svn/repos/conf/svnserve.conf --root /home/svn/repos/

17. Then execute:
    sudo initctl start svnserve
18. Back on the client side…
    Create a new folder inside your user folder:
    cd ~/test
19. Check out the project into this folder:
    svn checkout http://YOUR-IP-OR-HOSTNAME/svn/test
20. Let us just add a new HTML index file to the folder:
    vi index.html
21. Add it to version control:
    svn add index.html
    Commit the new file:
    svn commit -m "commit message"
    Update:
    svn up
22. That should cover most cases for you…

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