I'm looking to start using SVN for version control of projects at work. The problem is that I want our users to be able to create their own repositories on the fly, but in order to do that, you need to add something to the apache conf that looks like:

... and then restart apache. At least AFAIK.

Is there some other way to do this? Can this be done on the fly (like with htaccess or something like that)? It seems like the important bit is the "DAV svn" line - can that go in an htaccess file if I put the svn root in the web root? Any other clever ideas?

If anyone else comes across this, the answer is that you use SVNParentPath instead of SVNPath - that way all children of the parent path inherit the "DAV svn".

The above example would then become:

but the "bkq" project would still be accessed by: http://localhost/svn/bkq