To finish the install of ap2-subversion, you need to enable the modules by adding the following lines to your ${SYSCONFDIR}/apache2/httpd2.conf file: LoadModule dav_svn_module ${PREFIX}/lib/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so LoadModule authz_svn_module ${PREFIX}/lib/apache2/mod_authz_svn.so If you already have Apache running on your machine, you should not use "apachectl2 restart" - instead, you should fully stop and then restart the server.