I just want to browse my Subversion code repositories and view files. Some of the file types, like .VBS, prompt me to open or save the file, but I just want to view it in the browser as plain text. Can Apache's httpd.conf file be modified to do this? I don't think it would be changed on the client (IE7) because then it would work the same on all sites.
You can set the mime type of all your vbs files to text/plain by doing this in the root of your working copy:
svn propset --recursive svn:mime-type text/plain *.vbs
and then commit the changes. Explanation from the svn book on repository browsing:
To make this happen, you need only to make sure that your files have the proper svn:mime-type set. We discuss this in more detail in the section called “File Content Type”, and you can even configure your client to automatically attach proper svn:mime-type properties to files entering the repository for the first time; see the section called “Automatic Property Setting”.
So in our example, if one were to set the svn:mime-type property to text/html on file foo.html, Apache would properly tell your web browser to render the file as HTML. One could also attach proper image/* MIME-type properties to image files and ultimately get an entire web site to be viewable directly from a repository!