Wordpress + Uniform Sever + Subversion + Tortoise SVN

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Not sure this is the right place to post this, but anyway here goes:

I’m developing several wordpress sites at one go, and am using Uniform Server as my local server setup on which to develop and test my wordpress sites. When I’m ready from development I will just migrate the sites to the proper online server.

I would like to implement version control on each of these sites. I’ve tried to follow several guides for implementing this but I guess I still have my ideas muddled on some things. Till now I’ve downloaded subversion and installed it in my C:\svn directory. Then I also installed TortoiseSVN and I have the context menus working fine for Tortoise.

Now how should I set up the version control for each of the sites I have in my local Uniform Server. If it’s of any importance, the server creates a virtual driver (W:\) so the path to my sites is something like:
W:\www\site1, W:\www\site2 etc. And the address I use to access them in my browser is of course http://localhost/site1, http://localhost/site2 etc.

Any help greatly appreciated!

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Create a repository for each site, then check out that repository in W:\www\siteX

I recommend you also set up a new virtual host for each site with its own name so that the root of the site is the same on your local server as it will be on the production server. Meaning you access the site at http://site1 not http://localhost/site1, which adds a folder that won’t be there for the real thing.

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ok, nice tip for the virtual host, that will definitely save me some time.

Where should I create the repository? I’m still not very clear on how this works, I am seeing that Tortoise gives me the ‘TortoiseSVN > Create Repository here’ option, but not sure where exactly I need to place this repository, and what url to use for connecting to the repository.