From 745d984626db1b0546fe2599874322e14ae53d98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niko Fink Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:19:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] add hint about broken URLs when jupyterlab is missing --- README.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3fdcd9f..1b3d475 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -12,7 +12,11 @@ What this means in practice is that the `notebook` package must be installed and RUN pip install --no-cache notebook ``` -That's *almost* everything. +Note that if you are not installing `jupyterlab` in addition to the classic `notebook`, +you'll need to change your mybinder.org URLs from `/lab` to `/tree` as described +[here](https://mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howto/user_interface.html#jupyterlab). +Otherwise, you might get a "404: Not Found" error when launching your project on binder. +Now that's *almost* everything. The remaining piece is that the specified user must be able to *start* the notebook, which requires certain permissions like being able to write to the home directory.