title: Creating SVN repository server with XAMPP on windows
body: <p>For last 3 days I am struggling in setting up my SVN server. I tried several ways and tools but I found always some issue and bug all the files. </p>
  
  <p>I am planning to use the following tools for this project.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>For Server and database - XAMPP (Comes with APACHE and MySql)</li>
  <li>Version control server - subversion-1.6.16</li>
  <li>Version control client - tortoiseSVN</li>
  <li>IDE is Eclipse</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Following are my queries
  1. Is the above combination of tools and softwares is perfect for my project?
  2. Is there any open-source software which provides all the above functionalities combined?
  3. If anybody of you has already done such kind of project, could you please share with me which are the correct version of softwares I should use to get it worked error free.</p>
  
  <p>If anybody can provide solution for below I can carry on with my current setup also.</p>
  
  <p>My Error Message from server for current configuration : I tried to setup the svn-win32-1.6.16 with my XAMPP installation by copying the two moduels mod_dav_svn.so and mod_authz_svn.so to my apache modules directory and changed the httpd.conf file with Loadmodules of these the so files and set the location also for these. But when i start the server in error logs I get error message like this - "httpd.exe: Syntax error on line 136 of C:/xampp/apache/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load C:/xampp/apache/modules/mod_dav_svn.so into server: The specified module could not be found."</p>
  
  <p>Following are pre-conditions and configurations prior to this error
  Location of SVN - C:/SVN/svn-win32-1.6.16
  Location XAMPP - C:/xampp/</p>
  
  <p>Changes in httpd.conf file </p>
  
  <pre><code>LoadModule dav_svn_module modules/mod_dav_svn.so
  LoadModule authz_svn_module modules/mod_authz_svn.so
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and for location </p>
  
  <pre><code># Enter this location in your browser to access the repository
  &lt;Location /repos&gt;
      DAV svn
      SVNPath c:/SVN/svn_repos
  &lt;/Location&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have created the repository here - C:/SVN/svn_repos</p>