The Apache web server (http://httpd.apache.org/) is an open-source web server that runs on UNIX-style systems, Microsoft Windows, and other operating platforms, and is released under the Apache license. It is commonly—but incorrectly—referred to just as Apache, and we will do so here for the sake of brevity. It is by far the most popular web server on the Internet, and is often the yardstick by which other web servers are measured.
It provides many, many features, the majority of which we are going to ignore for the purposes of implementing our solution. However one feature it provides is essential to our needs.
As we are going to be using Apache to provide access to Trac and Subversion, then it makes sense to centralize our authentication here instead of maintaining multiple systems.
There are many titles are already dedicated to documenting Apache and its configuration, so, as for Subversion, this book will only provide us with the information we need to...