This article, like all of the ones in the System Administration Category, is for system administrators. It is about setting up a kick-butt version control system for web development, using Subversion.

After a brief overview of the Subversion Book, I thought that given a couple of hours, I’d be able to set up a subversion repository on my development server, and access it using WebDAV. Over SSL. Authenticated to my LDAP server. With auto-commits and automatic updates to the working dir (which is a website). I was totally wrong about the couple of hours part.

Four days later, I’ve learned a lot about Subversion and WebDAV, and a bit more about Apache 2. This article summarizes what I learned; I hope that it saves you some time!

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