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1. Add <SVN Installation Directory>\bin to PATH, separated by semicolon, and
<SVN Installation Directory> to ACE_HOME.
For example: Add C:\svn-win32-1.5.4\bin to PATH and C:\svn-win32-1.5.4 to
ACE_HOME.
2. Click OK.
3. Click Apply Changes.
If the PATH and ACE_HOME variables do not exist, follow these steps:
1. Click New on the User Variables dialog box.
2. Enter the variable name as PATH and variable value as <SVN Installation
Directory>\bin.
3. Enter the variable name as ACE_HOME and variable value as <SVN Installation
Directory>.
For example: Enter C:\svn-win32-1.5.4\bin as the value of PATH and
C:\svn-win32-1.5.4 as the value of ACE_HOME.
4. Click OK.
5. Click Apply Changes.
To install SVN 1.5.4:
1. Go to http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=11150&
expandFolder=11150&folderID=91.
A list of SVN download packages appears.
2. Download and extract svn-win32-1.5.4.zip to a location on the Windows system.
NOTE: This directory will be referred as <ACE_Home>.
3. Create the svn root directory (for example, c:\svn).
4. Create a repository folder in the svn root directory:
command prompt > svnadmin create c:\svn\repository
The repository folder gets created under the svn folder.
5. In the repository folder, uncomment the following lines in the conf/svnserve.conf file.
Before the change:
#anon-access = none
#auth-access = write
#password-db = passwd
After the change:
anon-access = none
auth-access = write
password-db = passwd
6. Add users to the conf/passwd file.
NOTE: You can uncomment the default harry and sally users and add new users.
Before the change:
harry = harryssecret
sally = sallyssecret
After the change:
Testuser1 = testpassword1
Testuser2 = testpassword2
7. Install SVN as a Windows service:
command prompt> sc create svnserver binpath= "c:\svn\bin\svnserve.exe --service -r c:\svn\repository"
command prompt> displayname= "Subversion" depend= Tcpip start= auto
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