The following reply was made to PR config/1754; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Hilmar Saller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Apache bugs database <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: config/1754: Content-Type: application/octet-stream should be text/html Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 08:43:26 -0700 (MST) On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Hilmar Saller wrote: >=20 > -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: Apache bugs database <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Datum: Montag, 2. Februar 1998 15:41 > Betreff: Re: config/1754: Content-Type: application/octet-stream should b= e > text/html >=20 >=20 > >On 2 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] > >> [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] > >> [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] > >> [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ] > >> > >> > >> Synopsis: Content-Type: application/octet-stream should be text/html > >> > >> State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback > >> State-Changed-By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> State-Changed-When: Mon Feb 2 06:20:52 PST 1998 > >> State-Changed-Why: > >> > >> Are you sure your mime.types file is correctly definied > >> and you've no other contrary AddType directives in your > >> configuration? > >> Are the content types for other files (i.e. .gif) correct? > > > >Are you using the Redhat RPM? If so, toss it out the window and install > >the distributed source tree or take this up with them; I have seen many > >reports of their RPM doing this when it shouldn't, and the base source > >tree _is_ configured to return the proper mime-type. > > > Thank You for Your Answer. This saved me a lots of hours searching. > I took apache-1.2.4-4 from the 5.0 LINUX for Alpha CDROM. > Installing it with rpm. >=20 > You mean the "/cdrom/SRPMS/apache-1.2.4-4.src.rpm" as the disributed tree= ? No, I mean the real Apache tree available from http://www.apache.org/dist/ I have no idea what RedHat did to theirs to break this, but they have done very bogus things in the past. Note that the paths for various things are different with the RedHat RPM and the unmodified source.
