How to Install and Configure Subversion (SVN) on RHEL

I have some prototype projects I need to save the source code to some kind of code repository. SVN natually comes to my mind. This blog record how I did.

These days, virtually every question can be answered through google. The only challenge is to form the right question and look through the pages and find out the right information. Through googling, I found the following pages are very useful.

1. Magnus's blogger

2. Redhat's page

Even though these pages are well written, but I found that you will not know what has happened without plowing a bit deeper.

Few things are important to know. Firstly, after the commands of:

yum install subversion httpd mod_dav_svn

apache httpd are installed at /etc/httpd. The configuration is the file

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

In that file, you will find that apache httpd is listening on the port 8099 by default. Thus, in order to check whether the svn is up and running or now, you can type in a web browser with the url of:

http://hostname.company.com:8099/snv/testrepo