Before, when you wanted to use Subversion you had to install Subversion and Tortoise on the development server and use Windows Explorer to create a repository. It was not that hard to create the rep. but you always had to create the tags, trunk and branches directories aswell.
Now you can use VisualSVN server. This is a free tool which gives you a GUI for creating the repositories (with tags, trunk, branches dirs if wanted) and even managing the security. So no more strugling with the text files to manage the read and writes permission. All can be done from the VisualSVN Server GUI.
When you run the setup, the setup will install subversion, Apache and openSSL (and some others) for you. So the default repository location will be :8080/svn">http://<server ip or name>:8080/svn. The port can be changed in the Apache config file.
The VisualSVN Server can be found on http://www.visualsvn.com/server
- Wesley
note: Updated Tomcat to Apache.