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I would like to run SVN server on my local machine along with WAMP. All SVN server binaries include Apache. Whereas I don't need Apache as I'm already running WAMP.

Please let me know if there are any installs available that includes only the SVN server. If there are none available, shall I go ahead with what's available? And how would I do that without breaking anything.

PS: I tried CollabNet and VisualSVNServer. Both includes Apache.

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If you're only using SVN locally, you don't need any HTTP server for it, you can simply access the repo through the filesystem. –  tdammers Sep 15 '11 at 6:11
Actually, I would like to host SVN server so that developers could start and collaborate projects on my machine. I mean, I like to create something like sourceforge.net in a small scale(not for public access). –  John Sep 15 '11 at 11:26
Or... you could use distributed version control. Then you wouldn't need to deal with all of that SVN [truncated message] –  cwallenpoole Sep 15 '11 at 13:04
Does svnserve not work? –  Ritch Melton Sep 27 '11 at 15:44
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SVN is a module and you could be able to include it in your existing apache. I have never done this. How to do this should be part of the svn documentation.

If you're only develop on this machine, you could also use the file:// protocol and wouldn't need to integrate with apache.


httpd, the Apache HTTP server is the chapter from the SVN book containing information about hosting svn repositories with apache.

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If you'll check command-line binaries of SVN, you'll find svnserve, which can handle repos over net with svn:// protocol.

Or you can integrate needed parts of VisualSVN Server's config into your Apache and get http-served repos (which in common work better)

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http served repos doesn't work better but there are some features like logging, user authentication (SSPI) which are only possible with http, sometimes svn served repos are better (performance) –  sdu Sep 27 '11 at 15:37
Firewalled corporate environment tells me another thing –  Lazy Badger Sep 27 '11 at 16:08
@sdu: Admin experience tells me - "Less services is better than more". PM experience tells me - "Web-frontend to repo is cool". Security experience tells me - httpS in more bullet-proof, than svn. Anyway - tastes can differ. –  Lazy Badger Sep 27 '11 at 16:17
if there is enterprise server there would be no discussion about http-served svn - but on a local machine? –  sdu Sep 27 '11 at 18:46
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