Or, ignore Apache and user the built-in SVN server, svnserve.
It's easy to set up and use -- instrux are in the online book referenced above. There are some tradeoffs, but I didn't want to mess with getting Apache 1.3 and 2.0 working side-by-side at the moment, so svnserve was great for me.
And, it's not a 2nd-class choice -- it's one of the fully-supported methods of talking to SVN.