35Installing Subversion Server on Windows

CollabNet is the commercial sponsor for the Subversion project and builds a number of products using Subversion. They also offer training and support services, as well as a number of prebuilt binaries for Subversion. The instructions on the facing page allow you to install svnserve for Windows, but the CollabNet installer also allows you to install Apache. You might use Apache if you need more flexibility or to make a Subversion repository available over the Web.

The CollabNet configuration for svnserve ensures that any directory created inside C:\svn_repos is served as a repository. If you want to create multiple repositories, just create several directories, and use svnadmin create to initialize ...

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