Configure Apache2 and Working With Subversion

In software development, Apache Subversion (formerly called Subversion^[1], command name svn) is a revision control system initiated in 2000 by CollabNet Inc. Developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly-compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS).

The open source community has used Subversion widely: for example in projects such as Apache Software Foundation, Free Pascal, FreeBSD, GCC, Django, Ruby, Mono, SourceForge, ExtJS, Tigris.org, PHP and MediaWiki. Google Code also provides Subversion hosting for their open source projects. BountySource systems use it exclusively. CodePlex offers access to Subversion as well as to other types of clients.

The corporate world has also started to adopt Subversion. A 2007 report by Forrester Research recognized Subversion as the sole leader in the Standalone Software Configuration Management (SCM) category and as a strong performer in the Software Configuration and Change Management (SCCM) category [read more]

I just write a tutorial to configure Subversion to working with Apache2 or HTTPD. So i assume you already have apache installed on your server. You can follow in http://www.idprayoga.com/2010/07/install-apache2-php-dan-mysql-pada.html to install apache php and mysql


Download Subversion and All Dependencies

Login into your server as root

#cd /root
#wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.6.6.tar.gz
#wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.6.6.tar.gz
#wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/files/expat/2.0.1/expat-2.0.1.tar.gz/download?use_mirror=nchc

Extract all packages

#tar -zxvf expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
#tar -zxvf subversion-1.6.6.tar.gz
#tar -zxvf subversion-deps-1.6.6.tar.gz

Compile Expat

#cd expat-2.0.1
#./configure && make && make install

Compile APR

#cd subversion-1.6.6
#cd apr
#./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apr 
#make
#make  install
#cd ..

Compile APR-UTIL

#cd apr-util
#./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apr  --with-apr=/usr/local/apr
#make
#make install
#cd ..

Compile NEON

#cd neon
#./configure --prefix=/usr/local/neon  --with-ssl  --with-libs=/usr/local/ssl --enable-shared
#make
#make install
#cd  ..

Compile Subversion

#./configure --prefix=/usr/local/subversion \
--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs  \
--with-apr=/usr/local/apr \
--with-apr-util=/usr/local/apr \
--with-neon=/usr/local/neon  \
--with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl 
#make 
#make install

If everything success subversion will added 2 modules into your apache modules and added 2 module line into your httpd.conf like below

#vi /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf

....
LoadModule  dav_svn_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule  authz_svn_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_authz_svn.so 
...

There will be 2 modules mod_dav_svn.so and mod_authz_svn.so

Restart Your Apache Services

#/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl stop
#/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl  start

Result

#tail -f /usr/local/apache2/logs/error_log
[Sat May 15 14:31:02 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.15 OpenSSL/0.9.7g DAV/2 PHP/5.3.1 SVN/1.6.6 configured -- resuming normal operations
If you see a SVN/1.6.6 it's mean your SVN modules already loaded in your  Apache Web Server

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