diff --git a/rhodecode/tests/functional/test_files.py b/rhodecode/tests/functional/test_files.py
--- a/rhodecode/tests/functional/test_files.py
+++ b/rhodecode/tests/functional/test_files.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 from rhodecode.tests import *
+from rhodecode.model.db import Repository
+from rhodecode.model.meta import Session
 
 ARCHIVE_SPECS = {
     '.tar.bz2': ('application/x-bzip2', 'tbz2', ''),
@@ -7,6 +9,13 @@ ARCHIVE_SPECS = {
 }
 
 
+def _set_downloads(repo_name, set_to):
+    repo = Repository.get_by_repo_name(repo_name)
+    repo.enable_downloads = set_to
+    Session().add(repo)
+    Session().commit()
+
+
 class TestFilesController(TestController):
 
     def test_index(self):
@@ -216,7 +225,7 @@ removed extra unicode conversion in diff
 
     def test_archival(self):
         self.log_user()
-
+        _set_downloads(HG_REPO, set_to=True)
         for arch_ext, info in ARCHIVE_SPECS.items():
             short = '27cd5cce30c9%s' % arch_ext
             fname = '27cd5cce30c96924232dffcd24178a07ffeb5dfc%s' % arch_ext
@@ -237,7 +246,7 @@ removed extra unicode conversion in diff
 
     def test_archival_wrong_ext(self):
         self.log_user()
-
+        _set_downloads(HG_REPO, set_to=True)
         for arch_ext in ['tar', 'rar', 'x', '..ax', '.zipz']:
             fname = '27cd5cce30c96924232dffcd24178a07ffeb5dfc%s' % arch_ext
 
@@ -249,7 +258,7 @@ removed extra unicode conversion in diff
 
     def test_archival_wrong_revision(self):
         self.log_user()
-
+        _set_downloads(HG_REPO, set_to=True)
         for rev in ['00x000000', 'tar', 'wrong', '@##$@$42413232', '232dffcd']:
             fname = '%s.zip' % rev