Comments on: Subversion server on Snow Leopard server

By: SVN Server Setting on Snow Leopard « coryjin27

SVN Server Setting on Snow Leopard « coryjin27 — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:20:15 +0000

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By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:43:36 +0000

The following lines in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf must also be uncommented

#LoadModule dav_module libexec/apache2/mod_dav.so
#LoadModule dav_fs_module libexec/apache2/mod_dav_fs.so

By: osxserveradmin

osxserveradmin — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:06:40 +0000

If you only want your SVN server on certain virtual hosts you can add the
Include “/private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-svn.conf”
line to a site (vhost) created by server admin in the directory
/etc/apache2/sites/

Then you can retain control over the server settings without freaking out server admin.

Although theres nothing wrong with your setup to be in keeping with the platform I would set the SVN directory to be in /Library/webserver/ , chown the user and group to be _www:admin like the other directories and if you wanted directory access via any other accounts you could use ACLs.

By: martin

martin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:10:53 +0000

Ernest,

It was really hard to show those tags in the comment, so I ended up taking a screenshot instead. A bit wide, but legible.

The only difference with your original text is that I left the SVNParentPath the same as in my text. At least I hope that’s the only difference. If not, tell me.

By: Ernest

Ernest — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:00:21 +0000

Sorry, those location tags did not post cleanly. There should be beginning and closing Location tags on either side of the Apache config.

The #Require … for Kerberos should all be one line as well. It is commented out, but mine is actually “Require user eab3 eab3@domain.tld“, getting both at once.

Feel free to edit these posts to consolidate them and making the config more legible.

By: Ernest

Ernest — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:57:09 +0000

FYI, I was able to get this working using native accounts (both Standalone or Open Directory configurations) on Snow Leopard Server by changing your httpd-svn.conf to the following:

And making sure that the following modules are enabled:

mod_auth_apple
mod_digest_apple
mod_auth_digest_apple

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:38:24 +0000

It all worked as detailed. Thanks. I did run into an error when apache started regarding loading the dav_svn_module that was resolved by opening the Server Admin –> Web –> Sites –> Options and enabling the WebDAV option. After that it all worked fine.