Recently I had to reinstall 2003 on my server at home, which was home to my BG Alert SVN server. I vaguely remembered setting SVN up about a year ago, so I had to put my trust into Google. Unfortunately, there wasn’t one site that helped with the whole setup. Since I don’t want you to have to deal with that, I’ve put all the information here, in one post.

To get started, you will need to download subversion, the current version is 1.4.5. Make sure you select the setup.exe to download for the newest version as well.

Once you’ve downloaded and installed subversion on the server, create a directory for your repositories. This can be done in Windows Explorer or from the command prompts with the mkdir command (mkdir C:\repositories). You will also need to give the NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService account appropriate rights to the directory you create. If you forget to grant access, you might get denied when Read the rest of this entry »