Setting up SVN on AWS EC2 instance

Steps to setup the SVN repository on the cloud instance (http://www.ange-agostini.com/blog/it/5-minutes-to-set-up-a-subversion-server-in-the-cloud.html):

Install subversion, apache and mod_dav_svn:

# sudo yum install mod_dav_svn subversion

Edit the Apache configuration file for subversion:

# sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf

Replace subversion.conf content by:

LoadModule dav_svn_module     modules/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module   modules/mod_authz_svn.so
<Location /repos>
   DAV svn
   SVNParentPath /var/www/svn
   # Limit write permission to list of valid users.
   AuthType Basic
   AuthName "Authorization Realm"
   AuthUserFile /var/www/svn-auth/passwd
   AuthzSVNAccessFile  /var/www/svn-auth/access
   Require valid-user
</Location>

Create the directory which will contain the subversion repository:

# sudo mkdir /var/www/svn

Create the directory which will contain the permissions files.

 # sudo mkdir /var/www/svn-auth

Create the permission file:

# sudo vi /var/www/svn-auth/access
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<theUser> = rw

Note: Replace <theUser> by the login you want to use to access your repository.
<theUser> will have read write access to all repositories.
It is possible to setup authorization by group or user for each repository.
Create the password file:

# sudo htpasswd -cb /var/www/svn-auth/passwd <theUser> <thePassword>

Note: Replace <theUser> by the login you want to use to access your repository. Replace <thePassword> by the password you want.
Create a repository (here project1):

# cd /var/www/svn
# sudo svnadmin create project1

Change files authorization:

# sudo chown -R apache.apache /var/www/svn /var/wwws/vn-auth
# chmod 600 /var/wwws/vn-auth/access /var/www/svn-auth/passwd

Start apache web server:

# sudo service httpd start

Note: to restart server use # sudo service httpd restart

Test subversion

Now subversion and apache should work.
Open a web browser and point to the URL : http://<Public DNS of your EC2 instance>/repos/project1
You should be prompted for your credential (Enter <theUser> <thePassword>) before accessing the repository

Subversion client

We are now going to interact with our repository from a windows PC.
If you don’t have a subversion client installed on your PC then you can install one from http://www.sliksvn.com/en/download .
You can test your subversion client from your PC by listing files on your repository:

svn ls http://<Public DNS of your EC2 instance>/repos/project1

The first time we often want to import some files to the repository:

svn import -m "Initial import." <path of the reposity where are the files on your PC> http://<Public DNS of your EC2 instance>/repos/project1

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ANOTHER WAY:

Steps given at https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=209468:

I signed up for an EC2 free tier tonight intending to use it as a Subversion server. The whole process took a couple of hours to setup, but can be compressed down to just a few minutes. If anybody else is looking to do the same, here is what I did:

1) Create the Linux-flavored micro instance.
2) Give it a Security Group that opens port 3690 to the sources of your choice. The following example allows SVN access from all Internet sources:

• | tcp | 3690 | 3690 | 0.0.0.0/0
• | udp | 3690 | 3690 | 0.0.0.0/0

3) SSH into the micro instance and run the command "sudo yum install subversion".
4) Create the directory to be used for subversion, for example "/home/ec2-user/svn".
5) Enter "svnadmin create /home/ec2-user/svn" (or whichever path you specified).
6) Edit two files: svnserve.conf and passwd both found in the "conf" directory of your newly created repository source.
In svnserve.conf, unremark the lines for "anon-access" (but change from "read" to "none") and "auth-access". Additionally, unremark the "password-db = passwd" line, but don't change it, and unremark the "realm =" line, providing a realm name of your choice.
In the passwd file, simply add a line entry with the user name(s) and password(s) to be used for access.
7) Finally, run "svnserve -d -r /home/ec2-user/svn" (or again, whichever path you specified) to kick off the instance.

Your Subversion server should now be available at the URL: svn://<yourinstancehostorip>/

Keep in mind the security for this quick and dirty setup is very minimal, and the daemon has not been configured for automatic startup at this point.

Reading:

http://jonathanhui.com/install-configure-subversion-ec2-amazon-linux