Version Control with Subversion

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server has more features than svnserve, it’s also a bit more difficult to set up. With

flexibility often comes more complexity.

Much of the following discussion includes references to Apache configuration direc-

tives. While some examples are given of the use of these directives, describing them

in full is outside the scope of this chapter. The Apache team maintains excellent

documentation, publicly available on their website at http://httpd.apache.org. For

example, a general reference for the configuration directives is located at http://

httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/directives.html.

Also, as you make changes to your Apache setup, it is likely that somewhere along

the way a mistake will be made. If you are not already familiar with Apache’s log-

ging subsystem, you should become aware of it. In your httpd.conf file are directives

that specify the on-disk locations of the access and error logs generated by Apache

(the

CustomLog and ErrorLog directives, respectively). Subversion’s mod_dav_svn uses

Apache’s error logging interface as well. You can always browse the contents of those

files for information that might reveal the source of a problem that is not clearly

noticeable otherwise.

Prerequisites

To network your repository over HTTP, you basically