Just see official website's document.
http://subversion.apache.org/
Details just see here:
Here are some KeyPoints:
- Apache as Server.
- Win32Svn(Or somethingelse ,just depends on your platform) as Server-svn
- TortoiseSvn as Client.
- Their Relationships:Win32Svn offers two apache-module(mod_sav_svn.so and mod_authz_svn.so)