HTML files rendered by Apache as text/plain

[Chris Shenton <Ch...@hq.nasa.gov>]

One of my developers put some HTML files into our SVN repo, which is
fronted by Apache.  When he looks at them on his browser, Apache
serves them with mime-type text/plain, so the browser doesn't render
them properly.  I checked the Apache2 mime configs and everything's
sane -- for normal HTML files anyway.

I was able to get SVN to inform Apache to supply the correct mime-type
text/html by setting the svn:mime-type property for each of these
files.  Apache then passes the right mime-type header and the browser
renders it properly.  Is this the right way to do this?

Is there a way to tell SVN that all .html files should have mime-type
text/html instead of text/plain?

Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks!

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Re: HTML files rendered by Apache as text/plain

["Dale R. Worley" <dw...@pingtel.com>]

On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 15:11 -0400, Chris Shenton wrote:
> I was able to get SVN to inform Apache to supply the correct mime-type
> text/html by setting the svn:mime-type property for each of these
> files.  Apache then passes the right mime-type header and the browser
> renders it properly.  Is this the right way to do this?

Yes -- Since Subversion thinks it knows the actual MIME type of the
file, Apache does not have to guess based on the extension.

> Is there a way to tell SVN that all .html files should have mime-type
> text/html instead of text/plain?

Strictly speaking, no.  But you can set the Subversion preferences in
the users' accounts so that when svn adds a file with extension .html,
svn will also do an "svn propset svn:mime-type" on the file.

You can write a script that will do the propset on every .html file in a
WC, and then check it in.

Dale



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