Ubuntu 20.04 Install Subversion SVN

Github ditching password authentication forced me to setup my own source codes versioning repository. Launch a new Ubuntu 20.04 EC2 and run the below command

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Install Apache. Service should be started post installation

sudo apt install apache2 apache2-utils

Install Subversion SVN. Module “dav” and “dav_svn” should be enabled post installation.

sudo apt install subversion libapache2-mod-svn subversion-tools libsvn-dev

Configure Subversion SVN. Please note the change at SVNParentPath.

sudo vim /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf

Create SVN parent path folder

sudo mkdir /var/www/svn

Create a repository named “project”. Change the ownership recursively to “www-data”

sudo svnadmin create /var/www/svn/project
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/svn

Create the first user. Lets say “admin”

sudo htpasswd -cm /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd admin

Create more user. Note that I omitted -c

sudo htpasswd -m /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd kevin

Restart Apache

sudo service apache2 restart

Test it

http://<ip_address>/svn/project

Some commonly use SVN commands can be found here

Common SVN Commands

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