Installation

Initial Preparation

Download the latest version from the Subversion home page (verison 1.4.6 at time of writing).

Once you have uncompressed the subversion source, proceed to install the prerequisites.

Neon library (http://www.webdav.org/neon/)
The Neon library allows a Subversion client to interact with remote repositories over the Internet via a WebDAV based protocol.

• CentOS 6 RPM:
  yum install neon-devel
• Source:
  
  wget http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-0.29.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf neon-0.29.3.tar.gz
mv neon-0.29.3 subversion-1.6.11/neon

Apache Configuration
Apache can be installed according to these instructions but will need these configuration options, at a minimum:

WebDAV instructions are also available for configuring Apache.
Swig
Install Swig:

• Original instructions:
  cd /extra/src
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/swig/swig-1.3.40.tar.gz
tar zxvf swig-1.3.40.tar.gz
cd swig-1.3.40
./configure
make && make install
• CentOS 6:
  
  yum install swig

SQLite
Subversion requires SQLite, a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine, to manage some internal databases:

• Original instructions:
  cd /extra/src
wget http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite-amalgamation-3.6.23.1.tar.gz
tar zxf sqlite-amalgamation-3.6.23.1.tar.gz
cd sqlite-3.6.23.1

  Configure, build and install:

  ./configure
make
make install

  Copy some source files that Subversion will need:

  mkdir /extra/src/subversion-1.6.11/sqlite-amalgamation
cp sqlite3.c /extra/src/subversion-1.6.11/sqlite-amalgamation/
• CentOS 6 instructions:
  
  yum install sqlite-devel

Subversion Installation
With the prerequisites installed in the subversion source tree, configure it:

Edit /extra/src/subversion-1.6.11/Makefile and append -lgssapi (details) to the end of the line that starts:

Then build and install the programs:

Confirm that /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf was modified to contain:

Install the Swig Python bindings:

Make sure that whatever directory the bindings got installed is in your PYTHONPATH. To do that, check your Python version (python -V) and for CentOS 6 and Python 2.6.x:

Initial Repository
Create a top-level directory to hold your repositories:

Create your first repository dummy:

Create the Apache user/password file for the svn repositories:

To add additional users:

Create a text file /var/svn/.authz that defines what the users have access to:

Make the file readable by only the Apache user:

Edit /usr/local/apache2.conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf and add a VirtualHost directive for your svn server:

Restart Apache:

Create additional repos
If you wish to create additional repositories (for different clients, different projects, or however you want to keep things organized) you only need to repeat the following steps. Apache itself should not need to be re-configured; the block above will make it treat ALL directories below the /var/svn directory as subversion repositories.

If you are creating a new userid for this repository...

To set the access rules for this repository, edit /var/www/.authz.