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Re: new Server and MIME-Types



On Fri, 04 Feb 2000 at 13:03:42 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> 
> Currently I set up my new Web-Server and I have some problems with MIME-Types.
> 
> Some of you know, that if you like to download a File (*.exe/*.zip) with a
> Web-Browser, you will get them as *.htm or *.txt as text.
> 
> Now I must setup the MIME-Types for ALL FILE EXTENSIONS.
> 
> I was looking in several knowledgebases and in Lycos but without success.
> 
> Question:   Does anyone know, where I can get the MIME-Type deffinitions ?
> =========   Normaly there must be a spezification but where ???
> 
> 
> Thanks in Advance 
> Michelle


Michelle,

usually they are in  /etc/mime.types. You haven't written which
WWW server
you use. If Apache, there's a symlink 
/etc/apache/mime.types -> ../mime.types
i.e. just to this file.

-- 
 Tomasz Papszun   SysAdm @ TP S.A. Lodz, Poland  | And it's only
 tomek@lodz.tpsa.pl   http://www.lodz.tpsa.pl/   | ones and zeros.


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