I’ve been telling myself that it’s time to run my own subversion server for personal uses for a while now. So I decided to finally get started with the extra Windows box I had laying around. My plan was to host the files on the Windows box (a desktop) and have the files I needed to checkout available on my Mac (a laptop).

I don’t think it’s worth while documenting the entire experience. Instead, I think it would be useful to list the webpages I referenced.

First and foremost, I downloaded subversion from tigris. In my case, since I’m running this on windows, I grabbed the Windows binaries built against Apache 2.2.x.

Next, the best reference for starting a project with Windows is here. This entry talks about setting up the right environment variables and creating a repository. Note that the SVNService wrapper being referred to is no longer necessary. Instead, check this out. Here, the author denotes steps to setup an NT service with no downloads necessary with subversion 1.4.x.

Lastly, I looked for a tutorial on some of the most basic svn commands and found this article, which goes over some of basic concepts of subversion as well.

The above articles should be all that is necessary for setting up a Windows subversion server in minutes.

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