HOWTO : SVN over HTTPS

Create the repository

$ svnadmin create /home/svn/repo/svn

Install RPM mod_dav_svn

$ yum install mod_dav_svn

Config who can access the repository and their permissions (r or w) /home/svn/conf/users-access-file

[/]
gulden = rw
other = r
[/privaterepo]
*=

• "gulden" user can access the the "/" repository with read and wright (rw) permissions
• "other" can access the the "/" repository with read (r) permission
• No one can access the "/privaterepo" repository

Create the Users password file

$ htpasswd /home/svn/conf/passwd gulden

Edit Apache configuration file: /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf

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


ServerName myhost.com
ServerAlias svn.myhost.com

 Order allow,deny
 Allow from all
 DAV svn
 SVNParentPath /home/svn/repo
 # our access control policy
 AuthzSVNAccessFile /home/svn/conf/users-access-file
 # try anonymous access first, resort to real
 # authentication if necessary.
 Satisfy Any
 Require valid-user
 #  how to authenticate a user
 AuthType Basic
 AuthName "My Subversion repository"
 AuthUserFile /home/svn/conf/passwd

Checkout a project

 $ svn co https://svn.myhost.com/svn/foo/trunk