RE: SVN files content Type

Hi,

I have got some information that we can overwrite the header information
if required. How can we set this for SVN?

Thanks & Regards,
Dinoj D
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:subversion-2011a_at_ryandesign.com]
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 12:14 PM
To: D, Dinoj
Cc: Daniel Shahaf; users_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: Re: SVN files content Type

On May 16, 2011, at 00:42, D, Dinoj wrote:

> Hi Daniel/Ryan
>
> Thanks. I understood that the mime content-types are not sending to
the
> client from the server's mime.types file , intead it takes from the
> files which have subversion mime-type property set. I am unable to
> configure this to bypass to apache mime.types file.

That's correct.

> Here my requirement
> is that whoever accessing the repository through web browser must get
> the mime content-type from the apache file conf/mime.types and not
from
> the svn:property. Please help on this.

There's no way to configure Subversion to do that.

As I already suggested, consider having a server-side post-commit hook
that updates a server-side working copy of a relevant part of your
repository, and point your apache at that working copy. Then, when users
want to access this site, instruct users to use that other URL, not the
repository URL.

As a concrete example:

Consider you have an HTML page in a project in a repository accessible
here:

http://www.example.com/svn/project1/trunk/folder/index.html

You haven't been using svn:mime-type, so users who view this URL in a
web browser will see the source of the document, instead of the page
rendered as HTML which is what you want.

Imagine your repository is on the server at /var/svn, and that you have
a document root at /var/www used for everything at
http://www.example.com/ other than the /svn directory, like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName www.example.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www
        <Location /svn>
                DAV svn
                SVNPath /var/svn
        </Location>
</VirtualHost

So, check out a working copy of this project's trunk somewhere inside
the document root:

mkdir -p /var/www/test
cd /var/www/test
svn co http://www.example.com/svn/project1/trunk project1

Now you can access that same HTML file from above at:

http://www.example.com/test/project1/folder/index.html

And now it will use the MIME types from the Apache configuration.

Now, you install a post-commit hook script in the repository which
basically does:

svn up /var/www/test/*

This way, every time anyone commits anything to the repository, the test
directories will be updated as well.

Updating "*" will be slow, so you can optimize this further if you like
to just update the thing that was just committed.
Received on 2011-08-04 11:12:27 CEST