downloading text files from apache
From my web page I link to .zip, .tgz, and .exe files and when the link is clicked, apache will open window to download the file. When I link to an .txt file it gets opened and displayed. I want to have it open for download like the other files. Is there some config option in httpd.conf that I have missed? Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: downloading text files from apache
fbsd_user wrote: From my web page I link to .zip, .tgz, and .exe files and when the link is clicked, apache will open window to download the file. When I link to an .txt file it gets opened and displayed. I want to have it open for download like the other files. Is there some config option in httpd.conf that I have missed? To understand the issue, read the man page for mime.types(5), and look at /usr/local/etc/apache/mime.types Text files are meant to be displayed like that. Easiest answer is to compress them and offer the compressed version for download. PWR. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: downloading text files from apache
I got no info found for man mime.types Are you saying that if I delete the statement for .txt out of the /usr/local/etc/apache/mime.types file that apache will download .txt files? Is there some statement I can add to httpd.conf to over ride the mime.types file? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Risdon Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: Re: downloading text files from apache fbsd_user wrote: From my web page I link to .zip, .tgz, and .exe files and when the link is clicked, apache will open window to download the file. When I link to an .txt file it gets opened and displayed. I want to have it open for download like the other files. Is there some config option in httpd.conf that I have missed? To understand the issue, read the man page for mime.types(5), and look at /usr/local/etc/apache/mime.types Text files are meant to be displayed like that. Easiest answer is to compress them and offer the compressed version for download. PWR. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: downloading text files from apache
fbsd_user wrote: I got no info found for man mime.types No, my fingers were ahead of my brain... mime.types(5) is put there by cups and refers to its own mime.types file. Are you saying that if I delete the statement for .txt out of the /usr/local/etc/apache/mime.types file that apache will download .txt files? I'm not advocating that. I'm advocating that you understand what this will do and why before thinking of doing it, and that in the meantime you compress any text files you want to make available for download, so they download as .zip, .gz or whatever. Apache's documentation says of the mime.types file: This file sets the default list of mappings from filename extensions to content types; changing this file is not recommended. (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html#typesconfig) Note there is an entry for zip files in mime.types with an extension, and one for gzipped files without an extension. Both download as you want on your computer but will behave slightly differently on some other machines. The server and browser are interacting here. It's worth learning about it properly before editing a configuration file. Is there some statement I can add to httpd.conf to over ride the mime.types file? There's an AddType statement for adding new mime types. That won't help you here, though. Bear in mind that when a browser displays a text file, it _has_ downloaded it. If the viewer wants to save it, they can. It's displayed to be helpful. Text files can be read and displayed by browsers. Changing this will change it everywhere, with everything the server does. Are you sure that's what you want? PWR. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: downloading text files from apache
On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:55:46 + Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + I'm not advocating that. I'm advocating that you understand what this + will do and why before thinking of doing it, and that in the meantime + you compress any text files you want to make available for download, so + they download as .zip, .gz or whatever. I am all for advocating people to read and learn. But there is another solution. Depending on the browser/environment you could right click and 'Save As'. // Asenchi ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
