Subversion Repository Setup

Hello All,

In a recent deployment of Mac OS X Server 10.5 (Leopard), we have come
across an issue with the way DAV is handled by the Server Admin
application.

We enabled the 4 required modules for Subversion, dav_module,
dav_fs_module, dav_svn_module, and authz_svn_module. Then we created
a new SSL site on port 443 and in the
/etc/apache2/sites/0001_any_443_site.com.conf file we appended our
custom information:

<Location /svn>
       DAV svn
       SVNParentPath /Library/WebServer/Subversion/repos

       # Our access control policy
       AuthzSVNAccessFile /Library/WebServer/Subversion/conf/svn-authz-access

       # How to authenticate a user
       AuthType Basic
       AuthName "Subversion Repository"
       AuthUserFile /Library/WebServer/Subversion/conf/svn-auth-file
       SSLRequireSSL

       # Only authenticated users may access the repository
       Require valid-user
</Location>

This is worked until a setting in the GUI (Server Admin) was changed
and it updated the configuration file. It reformatted it and removed
SSLRequireSSL, which is fine, but it also set DAV to off. Of course
with “DAV off” instead of “DAV svn”, Subversion would not work, so we
had to manually edit the configuration file and have Apache reload it.

Is this possibly a known issue/feature with Server Admin? Are we not
supposed to use the GUI once we changed the configuration file?

Is there some way we can just tell the GUI not to modify the “DAV”
line? I mean, it almost works, except for the fact that that line
gets changed.

Thanks.