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Installing and configuring Apache Subversion with modules on Ubuntu

Procedure

  1. Install the subversion, apache2 and libapache2-svn packages. 
    # apt-get install subversion apache2 libapache2-svn
  2. Create an svn directory, at the root of your system for example. 
    # mkdir /svn
  3. Change the owner of the directory to the webserver user, www-data by default. 
    # chown www-data:www-data /svn
  4. Switch to www-data user. 
    # su -l www-data -s /bin/bash
  5. Create a new SVN repository, my_repo for example. 
    $ svnadmin create /svn/my_repo
  6. Create a user and a password. 
    $ htpasswd -cmb /svn/passwd talend_admin secretpassword
  7. Open the SVN configuration file. 
    # vi /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf
  8. Update it as follows: 
    <Location /my_repo>
DAV svn
SVNPath /svn/my_repo
AuthUserFile /svn/passwd
Require valid-user
AuthType basic
AuthName "Subversion"
</Location>
  9. Restart Apache Subversion. 
    # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
  10. If you have SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) enabled on your system and experience and get the Can't open file 'db/txn-current-lock': Permission denied error message, follow these steps:

    If you do not, you cannot create a project in Talend Administration Center and get an error in the log with these details:

    Information noteWarning: 
    Save failed: org.talend.exception.BusinessException: svn: E204900: Can't open file '/var/www/svn/repository/db/txn-current-lock': Permission denied
svn: E175002: PROJECTNAME of '/svn/!svn/act/283c5381-5301-0010-9f7f-495961e572c2': 500 Internal Server Error (http://SVN-URL) -- For more information see your log file
    1. Open the terminal.
    2. Check if SELinux is enabled on your system using the sestatus.
      If SELinux is enabled on your system, the result should look like the following:
      root@ip-172-31-9-208 ~]# sestatus
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory: /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name: targeted
Current mode: enforcing
Mode from config file: enforcing
Policy MLS status: enabled
Policy deny_unknown status: allowed
Max kernel policy version: 28
    3. Complete the installation with the following commands: 
      chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /var/www/svn/repository
chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t /var/www/svn/repository

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