It seems that the How-to and Wiki page on installing Subversion with Apache needs to be updated.
When following the description, Apache refuses to start:
It seems that the current version of Apache required a different method for authentication.# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Syntax error on line 16 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf:
DAV not allowed here
Action 'configtest' failed.