Really stupid question from a total SVN noob:  I uploaded some docs to SVN for a dsource project, and linked to them via the project wiki.  When I follow the link to the docs, I get an HTML forbidden error.  How do I change the permissions in that SVN directory to make the docs viewable as plain old HTML?

Hello dsimcha,

> Really stupid question from a total SVN noob:  I uploaded some docs to
> SVN for a dsource project, and linked to them via the project wiki.
> When I follow the link to the docs, I get an HTML forbidden error.
> How do I change the permissions in that SVN directory to make the docs
> viewable as plain old HTML?
> 


Are the docs in HTML or plain text?

If they are text, I guess the direct link should work.

If they are html, you may need special permissions to display the html from a link.  I would email brad at dsource.org (convert that to email address form) since it may not be merely an svn management problem.

Another option, in the meantime, is to add the doc to the project wiki itself (but you must have permissions for that too, I suppose).

-JJR

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:23 PM, dsimcha <dsimcha@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Really stupid question from a total SVN noob:  I uploaded some docs to SVN for a dsource project, and linked to them via the project wiki.  When I follow the link to the docs, I get an HTML forbidden error.  How do I change the permissions in that SVN directory to make the docs viewable as plain old HTML?
>

I've never got a "forbidden" error, but I have had to change the svn mime type on them for them to show up as webpages instead of as raw source.  That's something you do on your end with your svn client, then check them in.

== Quote from Jarrett Billingsley (jarrett.billingsley@gmail.com)'s article
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:23 PM, dsimcha <dsimcha@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Really stupid question from a total SVN noob:  I uploaded some docs to SVN for a dsource project, and linked to them via the project wiki.  When I follow the link to the docs, I get an HTML forbidden error.  How do I change the permissions in that SVN directory to make the docs viewable as plain old HTML?
> >
> I've never got a "forbidden" error, but I have had to change the svn mime type on them for them to show up as webpages instead of as raw source.  That's something you do on your end with your svn client, then check them in.

Can you please elaborate on this?  What do I need to change the MIME type to? Please understand that most of my programming experience comes from working on research prototype code, where a lot of formalities like version control are often ignored, so my knowledge of tools like SVN is *way* behind my general programming knowledge.  Assume I know almost nothing about SVN.

== Quote from dsimcha (dsimcha@yahoo.com)'s article
> > I've never got a "forbidden" error, but I have had to change the svn mime type on them for them to show up as webpages instead of as raw source.  That's something you do on your end with your svn client, then check them in.
> Can you please elaborate on this?  What do I need to change the MIME
> type to? Please understand that most of my programming experience
> comes from working on research prototype code, where a lot of
> formalities like version control are often ignored, so my knowledge
> of tools like SVN is *way* behind my general programming
> knowledge.  Assume I know almost nothing about SVN.

This page describes the MIME-type change: http://www.dsource.org/projects/tutorials/wiki/SvnTips

But I think all you have to do is use URL's like this: http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dstats/docs/alloc.html (note: "svn" instead of "www").

== Quote from jcc7 (technocrat7@gmail.com)'s article
> == Quote from dsimcha (dsimcha@yahoo.com)'s article
> > > I've never got a "forbidden" error, but I have had to change the svn mime type on them for them to show up as webpages instead of as raw source.  That's something you do on your end with your svn client, then check them in.
> > Can you please elaborate on this?  What do I need to change the MIME
> > type to? Please understand that most of my programming experience
> > comes from working on research prototype code, where a lot of
> > formalities like version control are often ignored, so my knowledge
> > of tools like SVN is *way* behind my general programming
> > knowledge.  Assume I know almost nothing about SVN.
> This page describes the MIME-type change:
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/tutorials/wiki/SvnTips
> But I think all you have to do is use URL's like this:
> http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dstats/docs/alloc.html
> (note: "svn" instead of "www").

Awesome.  Thanks.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:30 AM, jcc7 <technocrat7@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This page describes the MIME-type change: http://www.dsource.org/projects/tutorials/wiki/SvnTips
>
> But I think all you have to do is use URL's like this: http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dstats/docs/alloc.html (note: "svn" instead of "www").

Stop being so clever ;)

"dsimcha" <dsimcha@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:gkks9h$1b74$1@digitalmars.com...
> == Quote from Jarrett Billingsley (jarrett.billingsley@gmail.com)'s article
>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:23 PM, dsimcha <dsimcha@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > Really stupid question from a total SVN noob:  I uploaded some docs to
>> > SVN for
>> > a dsource project, and linked to them via the project wiki.  When I
>> > follow the
>> > link to the docs, I get an HTML forbidden error.  How do I change the
>> > permissions in that SVN directory to make the docs viewable as plain
>> > old HTML?
>> >
>> I've never got a "forbidden" error, but I have had to change the svn mime type on them for them to show up as webpages instead of as raw source.  That's something you do on your end with your svn client, then check them in.
>
> Can you please elaborate on this?  What do I need to change the MIME type
> to?
> Please understand that most of my programming experience comes from
> working on
> research prototype code, where a lot of formalities like version control
> are often
> ignored, so my knowledge of tools like SVN is *way* behind my general
> programming
> knowledge.  Assume I know almost nothing about SVN.

Pardon me for saying so, but version control should never be ignored, not even on a one-man pet project.

Hello jcc7,

> == Quote from dsimcha (dsimcha@yahoo.com)'s article
> 
>>> I've never got a "forbidden" error, but I have had to change the svn
>>> mime type on them for them to show up as webpages instead of as raw
>>> source.  That's something you do on your end with your svn client,
>>> then check them in.
>>> 
>> Can you please elaborate on this?  What do I need to change the MIME
>> type to? Please understand that most of my programming experience
>> comes from working on research prototype code, where a lot of
>> formalities like version control are often ignored, so my knowledge
>> of tools like SVN is *way* behind my general programming
>> knowledge.  Assume I know almost nothing about SVN.
> This page describes the MIME-type change:
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/tutorials/wiki/SvnTips
> But I think all you have to do is use URL's like this:
> http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dstats/docs/alloc.html (note: "svn"
> instead of "www").
> 


Nice! :)

-JJR