How to setup SVN server on Ubuntu 14.04

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How to setup SVN server on Ubuntu 14.04

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Here in this article we will try to setup a basic SVN server on ubuntu 14.04 OS.

Test Environment

Ubuntu 14.04 OS installed

Procedure

Step1: Install the subversion package from the repository

sudo apt-get install subversion

Step2: Verify the version of the subversion package that is installed

$ dpkg-query --show subversion
subversion 1.8.8-1ubuntu3.1

Step3: Create a new group and user id for accessing the svn repository

$ sudo groupadd svn
$ cat /etc/group | grep svn
svn:x:1002:

$ sudo useradd svn -g svn -c "svn user" -p svn
$ cat /etc/passwd | grep svn
svn:x:1002:1002:svn user:/home/svn:

Step4: Now create a svn home directory and repository directory for the project

$ sudo mkdir -p /opt/subversion/svn
$ sudo svnadmin create /opt/subversion/svn/repos

Step5: Change the ownership on the repos directory to svn group and user svn

$ cd /opt/subversion/svn
$ sudo chown -R svn:svn repos

Step6: Set the group id to svn so that any new files added into the repos directory have proper permission

$ cd /opt/subversion/svn/
$ sudo chown -R svn:svn repos

Step7: Install and configure the apache http server

$ sudo apt-get install libapache2-svn
$ sudo apt-get install apache2

Edit the below file as shown if not already present.

$ vi /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.load
# Depends: dav
LoadModule dav_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_dav.so
LoadModule dav_svn_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_dav_svn.so

Edit the below file for creating apache virtual host as shown below.

$ vi /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf

Update the /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf file as below.

  <Location /svn>
     DAV svn
     SVNParentPath /opt/subversion/svn
     SVNListParentPath On
     AuthType Basic
     AuthName "Subversion Repository"
     AuthUserFile /etc/subversion/passwd
     Require valid-user
  </Location>

Step8: Install the below package for using the htpasswd utility

$ sudo apt-get install apache2-utils

Step9: Add user svn for accessing the repository into /etc/subversion/passwd

$ sudo htpasswd -cm /etc/subversion/passwd svn

Additional users could be added without using the ‘c’ option.

Step10: Restart the apache service

$ sudo service apache2 restart

Step11: Access the repository using the below url

URL: http://localhost/svn/

Step12: Check out and Check in files to the repository as below

$ sudo svn checkout http://localhost/svn/repos

$ echo “Hello world” > Hello.txt

$ sudo svn add Hello.txt

$ sudo svn commit Hello.txt -m “commiting test file”

Hope you enjoyed reading this article. Thank you.