SVN on CentOS

 su - ## OR ## sudo -i 

yum install mod_dav_svn subversion

Note: If you don’t have Apache installed already, this command installs it also. [http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-apache-php-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/ Read more about installing Apache and PHP »]

Add following config to

/etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf

file:

LoadModule dav_svn_module    modules/mod_dav_svn.so 
LoadModule authz_svn_module  modules/mod_authz_svn.so   
<Location /svn> 
DAV svn SVNParentPath /var/www/svn 
AuthType Basic 
AuthName "Subversion repositories" 
AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-users 
Require valid-user 
</Location>

Use following command:

## Create testuser ## 
htpasswd -cm /etc/svn-auth-users testuser 
New password: 
Re-type new password: 

Note: Use exactly same file and path name as used on subversion.conf file. This example use /etc/svn-auth-users file.

mkdir /var/www/svn 
cd /var/www/svn   
svnadmin create testrepo
chown -R apache.apache testrepo   
chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /var/www/svn/testrepo   
## Following enables commits over http ## chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t /var/www/svn/testrepo

Restart Apache:

/etc/init.d/httpd restart ## OR ## service httpd restart 

Goto http://localhost/svn/testrepo address and you should see something like following, write username and password:

SVN testrepo revision 0:

To disable anonymous access and enable access control add following rows to testrepo/conf/svnserve.conf file:

 ## Disable anonymous access 
 ## anon-access = none   
 ## Enable access control 
 ## authz-db = authz

Create “template” directories with following command:

mkdir -p /tmp/svn-structure-template/{trunk,branches,tags}

Then import template to project repository using “svn import” command:

svn import -m 'Initial import' /tmp/svn-structure-template/ http://localhost/svn/testrepo/ 
 Adding /tmp/svn-structure-template/trunk 
 Adding /tmp/svn-structure-template/branches 
 Adding /tmp/svn-structure-template/tags   
 Committed revision 1.

Check results on browser and see testrepo revision 1: