Securing an Apache 2 Web server can be an intimidating prospect for those new to secure sockets layer (SSL) certificates. However, this need not be the case. SSL secures Web server to Web browser connections. Read on to better understand SSL certificates, learn how to set them up on Apache and launch your SSL-enabled site.

basically i will save you some of reading the long tutorial and will get straight to the point – here are some useful commands that you are going to learn from this tutorial. I had some problem with these commands under windows so i give you my updated version – everything should be ok here

i tested that with win7 and xampp 1.7

create RSA private key
openssl genrsa -out mykey.pem 1024

create self-signed certificate
openssl req -config “xammp-dir\apache\bin\openssl.cnf” -new -key my.key -x509 -out sslname.crt

create certificate signing request
openssl req -new -key my.key -config “xammp-dir\apache\bin\openssl.cnf” -out my.csr

<IfDefine HAVE_SSL>

<VirtualHost 10.0.0.5:443>
DocumentRoot /home/sites/domainname.com/html
ServerName www.domainname.com
ServerAlias domainname.com
ServerAdmin admin@domainname.com
ErrorLog /home/sites/domainname.com/logs/error_log
TransferLog / home/sites/domainname.com/logs/access_log
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/domainname.com.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/domainname.com.key
SetEnvIf User-Agent “.*MSIE.*” nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown
</VirtualHost>

</IfDefine>

you can read more here:
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/securing-apache-2-server-ssl/

I’ve been using so far SVN server that you can install directly with your current Apache configuration, but to do so you have to install svn server, modify the httpd.conf to set up the SVN directory, and then write some lines in the cmd window so that you can create a service which is able to start the svn daemon automatically, so that you dont have to start it everytime you want to use it
if you are interested to do the thing the hard way – be my guest , follow the tutorials in the URLs below and you should be fine

• http://life.mysiteonline.org/archives/67-Installing-and-Setting-up-Subversion-SVN-Under-Windows-XP.html

• http://lifehacker.com/software/top/hack-attack-how-to-set-up-a-personal-home-subversion-server-188582.php

However recently i updated to Windows 7 ( win7 ) beta 7022 which is actually pretty stable OS, and behaving much better than the shity Vista . So i had to reinstall the SVN all over again, which if you are lazy person can be pretty boring:)

So i found the Visual SVN Sever:

http://visualsvn.com/server/

after some searching i found pretty damn good easy to understand tutorial in which even if you havent using it before, most probably you will get everything on

so – check it here

http://rajibmahmud.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/work-with-visual-svn-server-tortoise-svn/

the Visual SVN will create separate apache process and will manage your repository via https (you have to write https://server-name/main-repository-name/your-project:port) insted of svn://server/project-name but i guess it’s ok cuz almost everything is done automaticaly. The only thing you have to config are the User rights and passwords etc