I tried to set up Subversion on my MacBook Pro running OSX Leopard 10.5.6 by following Mark Kirby’s blog entry. Overall, his instructions were excellent if you plan on sticking with the pre-installed Subversion 1.4.4. However, if you want to update to the latest Subversion version (1.5.4 at time of this writing), you will need to keep the following in mind:
1. Apache2’s mod_dav_svn.so was complied with Subversion 1.4.4 in mind.
Instead of:
/usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so
Use:
/opt/subversion/lib/svn-apache/mod_dav_svn.so
2. It is probably just readability issue on Mark’s blog, but module name and path should be on the same line.
Instead of:
LoadModule dav_svn_module
/usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so
<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /usr/local/svn
</Location>
Use:
LoadModule dav_svn_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so
<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /usr/local/svn
</Location>
