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How do I set up apache so I can view the website stored in subversion?

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How do I set up apache so I can view the website stored in subversion?

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Well, as you already know, it’s easy enough to see the current version of a file with Subversion. Merely typing in the URL of the file on a properly configured web server is enough to see its contents. So you can already see any individual page of your website in apache. However, what you want is a little different. You want your code, upon being checked it, to immediately be moved to wherever your website is actually hosted from, and you want apache to treat it like a real website and not like a bunch of checked in SVN files. Neither Subversion nor Apache can do this on their own (as far as I know), so you need some sort of automatic deployment solution. There are several around. One that comes to mind is Capistrano, which is especially popular for Ruby on Rails development (but I’m pretty sure it requires a Ruby environment to even use). The trick is that you want something that will either be triggered by an SVN checking, will regularly check for new SVN code, or will be manually ac

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