Setting up a secure SVN server on OSX Server edition

Question

I set up an svn server on my apple server running OSX server edition (leopard) following these instructions http://agileshrugged.com/blog/?p=14 and that was easy enough.

Unfortunately these instructions only describe how to set up an http based svn server and I would like to access my svn server using https.

I found these instructions http://www.sonzea.com/articles/subversion-trac.html online but when I got to step 7 it instructed me to add the following include: Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-ssl.conf but unfortunately OSX server does not have this .conf file. This is not too surprsing because these instruction were about installing an svn server on OSX (not server edition). I have not been able to find any instructions specifically about installing an svn server on OSX server edition and I am now somewhat stuck.

Can anyone either link me to some documentation specific to this situation or maybe should I refer to a different .conf instead of /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-ssl.conf?

Answer 1

Well I think that's just specifying an arbitrary path as an example. If you already have a signed certificate, the location they're stored doesn't matter as long as they're secured with proper perms, etc.

You will need to edit the httpd.conf file, set a permanent rewrite rule on port 80 to redirect to port 443. Now you must edit the ssl.conf file ( providing mod_ssl and openssl are installed ). Now you will be able to setup the virtual host for port 443 and specify the location of your private key, csr and .crt.

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