Create a directory for SVN::Web's configuration files, templates, stylesheets, and other data. mkdir svnweb Run svnweb-install in this directory to configure the environment. cd svnweb svnweb-install Edit the file config.yaml that's been created, and add the following two lines: repos: test: 'file:///path/to/repo' file:///path/to/repo should be the URL for an existing Subversion repository. Either configure your web server (see "WEB SERVERS") to use SVN::Web, or run svnweb-server to start a simple web server for testing. svnweb-server Note: svnweb-server requires HTTP::Server::Simple to run, which is not a requirement of SVN::Web. You may have to install HTTP::Server::Simple first.