How to Setup WebDAV Access to a Subversion Repository

Added by dblevins, last edited by Ben Walding on Mar 14, 2008  (view change)

The following process will setup subversion so that users can checkout via webdav (e.g. svn co http://foo). The example assumes the user has root privileges via sudo on beaver.codehaus.org.

  1. Edit /usr/local/apache-2/conf/svn-dav.conf to include: 
    <Location /FOO>
  DAV svn
  SVNPath /home/projects/FOO/scm

  # how to authenticate a user
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "FOO Repo"
  AuthExternal svnrepos
  GroupExternal svnrepos

  # For any operations other than these, require an authenticated user.
  <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
    Require group FOO
  </LimitExcept>
</Location>
  2. Add the apache user to your project's unix group FOO
  3. Bounce the Apache server to reload its configuration. 
    sudo /usr/local/apache-2/bin/apachectl graceful

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