My relationship with subversion has been akin to someone who drinks white lightening for several years who then, slowly, but surely sobers up, gets a life

The white lightening (super strong, semi-fuel, part of the staple diet of any leet alcoholic) was visual sourcesafe 4, 5 and 6, so I wasn’t grokking svn at all. That’s all good now though, because as a result of switching to mac, and then using darwin ports anr rails, I fell in love with subversion, and (despite some peolple worries about Berkley db) have now happily integrated it into most areas of my (techno) life

However, setting it up on windows with apache can be a bitch!

It was driving me truly mad, truly truly mad.

It kept crashing, and making apache fall over.

Turns out there are a couple of issues: 1. You have to use the correct version of subversion for your apache server (I wasn’t), and 2. it turns out that the mod_dav_svn.so module you load in your apache config, should be in the bin directory of your apache install – I found this after searching everywhere on the net for more info