SVN Server on CentOS 6 with Web Access

Before installing the SVN Server,disabled the SELinux:

sudo nano /etc/selinux/config

Make SELINUX=disabled:



Restart the Server!

To install SVN server, run this command at the command prompt:

sudo yum install httpd mod_dav_svn subversion

Make the Apache service to run automatically at boot time:

sudo chkconfig httpd on

Edit the subversion.conf file:

sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf

Delete all the data and make it simple like this :

LoadModule dav_svn_module modules/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module modules/mod_authz_svn.so

<Location /svn>
 DAV svn
 SVNParentPath /svn
 AuthType Basic
 AuthName "Subversion repositories"
 AuthUserFile /svnauth/auth
 Require valid-user
</Location>

Now, we create a separate directory where we will keep the authentication file:

sudo mkdir /svnauth
sudo chown -R apache.apache /svnauth/
sudo htpasswd -cm /svnauth/auth arbab

We only need to use the -c option for the FIRST TIME, when you create a user, after that you will only use the -m option.

After that, we make the directory where we want to keep the svn repositories and also create testrepo inside:



Make sure we set the permissions of the /svn directory to apache with the following command:



Restart the apache service:

sudo service httpd restart

Configure the iptables rule in order to allow access to the svn server:

sudo iptables -I INPUT 4 -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
sudo service iptables save

Now if we go to http://server-ip/svn/testrepo using web browser,it will ask for username and password:



Once we enter the correct username and password, we should see that the repository is enabled!



Now, we have a working subversion server!

Hope this will help you!