Installing subversion Server with LDAP on Ubuntu 9.04

A very popular version control is Subversion. However, many times subversion requires integration with other systems and protocols. First, Subversion can take advantage of apache to allow remote access and Second we need some kind of authentication and authorization. The following process will help you to put all this together ina very quick and easy way.

I assume you have a LDAP server already set up.
Install Apache, and Subvervion:

# apt-get install apache2 subversion libapache2-svn subversion-tools

Edit dav_svn.conf

#vi /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf

The file should have nothing enabled, so we need to add our configuration  

The following configuration uses LDAP authetication and SVN authorization.

On LDAP, users on svngroup GROUP will have access to the repository.

        DAV svn

        SVNParentPath /svn

        AuthzSVNAccessFile /svn/aclfile

        AuthName "Subversion Repos"

        AuthType Basic

        AuthBasicProvider ldap

        AuthzLDAPAuthoritative   on

        AuthLDAPURL ldap://ldap:389/ou=People,dc=example,dc=com?uid

        AuthLDAPGroupAttribute memberUid

        AuthLDAPGroupAttributeIsDN off

        Require ldap-group cn=svngroup,ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=com

Enabling module for LDAP authentication 

#a2enmod authnz_ldap

START APACHE

#/etc/init.d/apache2 start

Create the aclfile on /svn to set up the authorization for Repositories.

[groups]

sysadmin = user

[test:/]

@sysadmin=rw

Create the test repo.

#cd /svn

#svnadmin create test

Then you can test access to your SVN with your browser.

http://svn-server/svn/test/

Adding WEBSVN

Get the latest package from website.

# apt-get install websvn

Follow the configuration screen and done

Then edit the following file.

#vi /etc/websvn/svn_deb_conf.inc

Comment $config->addRepository("repos 1", "file:///svn");

and Save

Now you can access your repos on http://svn-server/websvn/

However we should put some security.

Go and Edit /etc/websvn/apache.conf and add the Authetication with LDAP.

   AuthName "WEBSVN "

   AuthType Basic

   AuthBasicProvider ldap

   AuthzLDAPAuthoritative   on

   AuthLDAPURL ldap://ldap:389/ou=People,dc=example,dc=com?uid

   # Require valid-user

   AuthLDAPGroupAttribute memberUid

   AuthLDAPGroupAttributeIsDN off

   Require ldap-group cn=svndev,ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=com

save and Restart Apache.