svnserve.conf authentication not worked

Question

I can setup Subversion server. I can commit change. The only thing I am not sure is to set up the basic authentication with svnserve. Here is the tutorial I followed:

http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-serversetup-svnserve.html#tsvn-serversetup-svnserve-4

Based on the tutorial, I edited the 2 files: svnserve.conf and passwd, and restarted the apache server. But the authentication still cannot work.

Even if I set:

anon-access = none

and restart apache, I can still read svn files and commit change from Eclipse.

Have I missed any steps?

Answer 1

If you are using apache to serve your repository, you need to read the next chapter SVN server using Apache. The documentation that you read is only when you are using svnserver to serve your subversion repository using the svn:// protocol.

Answer 2

svnserve is completely independent from Apache - it's a stand-alone service, so restarting Apache won't do anything. In fact, the point of svnserve is that you don't need Apache (and that's also why it uses svn:// URLs instead of http:// URLs).

If you want to use Apache, you'll want to look at http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-serversetup-apache.html instead.