1. That you have a working apache2 setup on your Ubuntu Server.

2. You have correctly configured the dns records for your domain.

3. You already got a certificate from a trusted certificate authority (CA) such as Godaddy,Verisign, Comodo, etc.

Let’s verify our web server that it is up and running, before beginning this tutorial:

http://rbgeek.com

Create a directory inside the /etc/apache2/ directory,where we’ll save the private key, public key certificate and bundle certificate:

cd /etc/apache2/ 
sudo mkdir ssl

Transfer the private key, public key certificate and bundle certificate inside the /etc/apache2/ssl/ directory and verify it:

cd ssl
ls

We want to configure the apache in such a way that it’ll run on HTTPs and for this we need to enable ssl Apache2 module with a2enmod:

sudo a2enmod ssl

It will suggest you to restart apache,ignore that message for now.

Edit the ports.conf file:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf

Ensure that port 443 is defined as follows and add the NameVirtualHost for port 443,comment other lines:

NameVirtualHost *:443
Listen 443

Open up the SSL config file:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl

Fill in the correct ServerAdmin email address,add the ServerName line and adjust the path in the DocumentRoot line. Also make sure that we have a valid path for the SSL:

Now we need to configure the SSL site:

sudo a2ensite default-ssl

Restart the Apache service:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Now we should be able to connect to the server through SSL using Chrome or any other browser:

Verify the Certificate, that it’s the same that we got from a trusted certificate authority (CA) and configured:

Our Web Server is also working with http (port 80).But, we don’t want that users access it through http, we only want to access it through https. To fix this, we need to edit the /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default 

Delete everything and add a redirection:

RedirectPermanent / https://rbgeek.com/

Note: Also execute this command:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Restart the apache2 service:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Now if we go to http://rbgeek.com/, it will redirect us to https://rbgeek.com/

Enjoy 

Hope this will help you!

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sudo apt-get install subversion apache2 libapache2-svn

Verify the installed version of Subversion software:

svn --version

We want to configure the apache in such a way that it’ll run on HTTPs and for this we need to enable ssl Apache2 module with a2enmod:

sudo a2enmod ssl

It will suggest you to restart apache;ignore that message for now.

Create a directory inside the /etc/apache2/ directory,where we’ll save the server key and certificate:

sudo mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl

Use this command for creating the self-signed SSL certificate and the server key that protects it, and save them into the new directory (/etc/apache2/ssl/):

sudo openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -out /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem -keyout /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key

Note: Fill the information accordingly!

Edit the ports.conf file:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf

Ensure that port 443 is defined as follows and add the NameVirtualHost for port 443:

NameVirtualHost *:443
Listen 443

Open up the SSL config file:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl

Comment out the default certificate and key:

#SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
#SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key

And add the newly created certificate and key:

SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key

Now we need to configure the SSL site:

sudo a2ensite default-ssl

Restart the Apache service:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Now we should be able to connect to the server through SSL using Chrome or any other browser:

Verify the Certificate, that it’s the same that we created and configured:

Next, we need to configure the SVN Server for this, make a directory where you want to keep the svn repositories and edit the dav_svn.conf file:

sudo mkdir /svn
sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf

Delete all the data and make it simple like this:

<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /svn
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion Repository"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
Require valid-user
SSLRequireSSL
</Location>

To create a svn user , use the following command:

sudo htpasswd -cm /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd arbab

We only need to use the -c option for the FIRST TIME, when you create a user, after that you will only use the   -m option.

Move to the folder, where you want to keep your repositories and create your first repository:

cd /svn
sudo svnadmin create myrepo

Make sure you set the permissions of the /svn directory to apache with the following command:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /svn

Restart the apache2 service:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Let’s test with the browser that our svn repository is accessible now through HTTPs at following url:

https://tendo.local/svn/myrepo

Click “Proceed anyway“, enter the username and password:

Yes, It is working

Note: Our SVN Server is also working with http:

But, we don’t want that users access it through http, we only want to access it through https. To fix this, we need to edit the ports.conf file:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf

Comment these two lines:

#NameVirtualHost *:80
#Listen 80

Restart the apache2 service:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Now, try to access it through http, it’ll give us the rejection error:

But with https, we can still access the svn repositories:

Hope this will help you!

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Enjoy