Compile subversion for Fedora 19

If you've already tried to compile subversion for Fedora 19, and you got the error message when doing a svn update of svn checkout:

Unrecognized URL scheme for ...

then you have to compile subversion with https support.  This is done by default, but you have to have the serf libraries installed.  Here's how to get things working:

sudo yum install libserf libserf-devel apr-util apr-util-devel apr apr-devel

Then, you can compile subversion normally, like this:

tar -zxvf subversion-1.8.10.tar.gz
cd subversion-1.8.10
./configure
make -j16
sudo make install

How to get viewvc working with Apache httpd and Fedora and subversion (svn)

1. Get subversion working with httpd first. (See http://muddyazian.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-to-start-subversion-repository-over.html)
2. yum install viewvc viewvc-httpd
3. Edit /etc/viewvc/viewvc.conf and modify the svn_roots and root_parents options.
4. Edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and add in the following:
   
   <Directory /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/viewvc/bin/mod_python>
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
     AuthType Basic
     AuthName "Subversion repositories"
     AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-users
     Require valid-user
   </Directory>
   
   <Directory /usr/share/viewvc/templates/docroot>
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
   </Directory>
   
   
   
   ...
   
   Alias /viewvc-static "/usr/share/viewvc/templates/docroot/images"
   
   
   
   ...
   
   ScriptAlias /viewvc /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/viewvc/bin/cgi/viewvc.cgi
   ScriptAlias /query /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/viewvc/bin/cgi/query.cgi
   
   
5. Restart the web server: /sbin/service httpd restart
6. Go to http://localhost/viewvc
7. If you haven't already done so, create the /etc/svn-auth-users file:
   
   htpasswd -cm /etc/svn-auth-users firstUsername
   New password:
   Re-type new password:
   Adding password for user firstUsername
   

You can test things out (sanity check) like this:

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/viewvc/bin/standalone.py -r /path/to/svn/repository/location

Then in firefox, go to http://localhost:49152/viewvc

How to start a subversion repository over http using apache on Fedora or RHEL Linux

This is a great tutorial about how to do it really easily:

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-svn-subversion-server-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/