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Bug 335518

Summary:	link folder permission error message is obscure
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	John J. Barton <johnjbarton>
Component:	Client	Assignee:	John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	bokowski, mamacdon
Version:	0.2
Target Milestone:	0.2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description John J. Barton

2011-01-26 17:15:51 EST

1. in your eclipse.ini, add below -vmargs
-Dorg.eclipse.e4.webide.server.allowedPathPrefixes=C:\Users\johnjbarton\firebug\fbug\fbug

2. start server and client, use Link Folder icon with any name and path.
Expected: A message that helps you figure out what to do next.
Actual: Error: Unable to load http://localhost:8080/workspace/A status:403

A better message would be:
C:\Users\johnjbarton\firebug\fbug\fbug is not accessible via any path on JVM args
org.eclipse.orion.server.core.allowedPathPrefixes

Comment 1 Boris Bokowski

2011-01-26 17:17:25 EST

The common problem is going to be that the allowedPathPrefixes option is missing completely, or mis-spelled. Mentioning the name of the setting in the error dialog would indeed be helpful.

Comment 2 John J. Barton

2011-01-26 17:28:26 EST

see also https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=335478

Comment 3 John Arthorne

2011-06-27 15:32:09 EDT

http://git.eclipse.org/c/e4/org.eclipse.orion.client.git/commit/?id=212f75592fa9afc28fa71267f43aa90258d32a94

http://git.eclipse.org/c/e4/org.eclipse.orion.server.git/commit/?id=34b3a1dc72bbedd8dfb529ae53118f55848b8495

The new message looks like this:

"Cannot link to server path c:\foo. Use the orion.file.allowedPaths property to specify server locations where content can be linked."