Comments on: How-To: Set up SVN with Apache2 in Linux (Ubuntu)

By: Ranjan Yengkhom

Ranjan Yengkhom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:58:01 +0000

I have followed the steps properly. My problem is about authentication user to access svn

I created a user say test as
htpasswd -cm /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd test

Then I open the svn :
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx/svn
I got the login interface. When I try login with USER-ID (test) & correct password
I get the message:
You don’t have permission to access /svn/testKRA on this server.

Can you plz help me what is wrong with my installation process..

By: Pope

Pope — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:31:07 +0000

Note: ” htpasswd2 -c /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd temar ” changed a little while ago slightly. If htpasswd2 does not work, try htpasswd instead:

thus: htpasswd -c /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd temar

By: George A. Papayiannis

George A. Papayiannis — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:41:36 +0000

So now you need to get a client going. I use http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org

By: Jiten

Jiten — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:35:35 +0000

Hi, I have installed svn 1.5.4 on unix server. I want to create repository on UNIX server and client on windows. How can I achieve this? Please help me.

By: Jagjot Singh

Jagjot Singh — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:55:04 +0000

Hi, i just completed my svn installation but i’m not able to browse my project. e.g. svn co http://localhost/svn/myproject gives me doesn’t exist. Where am i going wrong ?

By: chris

chris — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:02:42 +0000

to add password requirement to do commits..


DAV svn

SVNPath /svn
AuthType Basic

AuthName "Subversion Repository"

AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
  Require valid-user

and in console:

create the password file

rm -f /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd

add username and password for some 1 (useing temar as example)
htpasswd2 -c /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd temar

it will ask for password after u enter that :D
enjoy

By: wese

wese — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:09:58 +0000

Nice howto, short and simple.
Thanks for sharing.

By: Nael

Nael — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:10:22 +0000

Yo George. This was useful..i didnt know the svn repo had to be outside the webserver. Working great now with authentication :)

By: Alp Tilev

Alp Tilev — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:01:44 +0000

great how-to. but does this level of configuration ask for authentication?

By: Sam Hassell

Sam Hassell — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:35:23 +0000

Thanks for this how-to, it just came in handy!

-Sam.