Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-users-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 14155 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2006 13:39:10 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 10 Feb 2006 13:39:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 7381 invoked by uid 500); 10 Feb 2006 13:38:56 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-users-archive@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 7357 invoked by uid 500); 10 Feb 2006 13:38:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@httpd.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: users@httpd.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list users@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 7346 invoked by uid 99); 10 Feb 2006 13:38:56 -0000 Received: from asf.osuosl.org (HELO asf.osuosl.org) (140.211.166.49) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 05:38:56 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests= X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (asf.osuosl.org: local policy) Received: from [80.229.52.226] (HELO asgard.webthing.com) (80.229.52.226) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 05:38:54 -0800 Received: from asgard (asgard [192.168.10.2]) by asgard.webthing.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 686146456E for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:38:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Nick Kew Organization: WebThing Ltd To: users@httpd.apache.org Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:38:29 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602101338.31578.nick@webthing.com> X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Subject: Re: [users@httpd] default mime.types does not contain "gz" - any reason why not? X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Friday 10 February 2006 12:31, httpd2@karsites.net wrote: > Users are not really supposed to edit the mime.types file > directly. I think this is what the AddType directive is for. Broadly speaking, yes. > # AddType allows you to add to or override the MIME configuration > # file mime.types for specific file types. > AddType application/x-compress .Z > AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz > AddType application/x-httpd-php .php > AddType application/x-httpd-php .hml > AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm > AddType application/x-httpd-php .html > AddType application/x-httpd-php .js All of those would be badly wrong. Compress and gzip are encodings; PHP is a handler. None of them is a type. -- Nick Kew --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@httpd.apache.org