enable subversion server come with Leopard

Mac Leopard actually come with subversion server and client that integrated with its own apache2.

Steps to enable it:

• create self-signed certificate http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign.html or http://developer.apple.com/internet/serverside/modssl.html
  
• modify the /etc/apache2/httpd.conf to add the below:

LoadModule dav_svn_module libexec/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module libexec/apache2/mod_authz_svn.so

• enable httpd-ssl.conf by removing the comment from the following line in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf:

Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-ssl.conf

• Add the following line at the end of file /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-ssl.conf but before the </VirtualHost>

DAV svn

SVNPath /opt/repos

AuthType Basic

AuthName "Authorization Realm"

AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-file

Require valid-user

• create the /etc/svn-auth-file using the following command to create user id. It will prompt for password twice

htpasswd -cm /etc/svn-auth-file

• restart apache by

/usr/sbin/apachectl restart

• mkdir the subversion repository, generate the first repository and change ownership of the folder to match with apache user

mkdir /opt/repos

svnadmin create /opt/repos

chown -R www:www /opt/repos

• test the access to subversion server using the https://127.0.0.1/svn/
• try with svn co https://127.0.0.1/svn/trunk --username