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I have ssh access to a webserver which has svn. I'm trying to set up a repository via the ssh but I'm not completely sure how. The server is running parallels plesk if that makes a difference.

My home directory is as follows: 

anon_ftp  cgi-bin  error_docs  httpsdocs  private     subdomains  
bin       conf     httpdocs    pd         statistics  web_users

should I create the repository in https docs, like svnadmin create httpsdocs/svn? Would this allow me to check out the repository like this svn checkout https://domain.com:443/svn/blah/trunk? Or is there some intermediate step to getting the repository to an accessible state?

How do I set up users and groups etc in the repository? Previously I have only used VisualSVN server on my laptop, which set up the server for me and made it really easy to configure the repository...

Can anyone help?

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Do you have DAV enabled on the server? If not (or if it's not an option), then you won't be able to access the repo via http/https. That said, unless there's a specific reason you'd need to access it via http, you have the option of using svn+ssh. Here's a quick-n-dirty process:

  • On the server (via ssh): $ svnadmin create /path/to/repo
  • From your client: $ svn checkout svn+ssh://user@hostname:/path/to/repo
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  • I'm glad there's a workaround. But how do I check for DAV?
    – Carson Myers
    Dec 18, 2009 at 5:00
  • Are you in control of the server or is it a shared server? If it's under your control, then it's probably not enabled. If shared, you'll need to talk with your hosting company.
    – EEAA
    Dec 18, 2009 at 5:07
  • It's my sort-of-boss's server, I have access to the plesk panel
    – Carson Myers
    Dec 18, 2009 at 5:10
  • I'm not familiar with plesk enough to know if it has a way of showing the currently-loaded apache modules. If you have root access on the server, you can run apache2 -M and it'll list the currently loaded modules.
    – EEAA
    Dec 18, 2009 at 5:16

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