On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, David Hughes wrote:

> Am running RedHat 5.0 and the Apache bundle that came off of the CD.  Am
> running Netscape 4.04 on a Win95 workstation.  The subnet is IP masq'd.
> 
> I have an oddity which I would definitely like to solve if anyone can
> help.  When I try and hit an html page on the server, if the page has a
> .html extension, the page displays fine.  If the page has a .htm
> extension, it displays in ascii in Netscape.
> 
> If I hit the same pages located on a server running 4.2 (also a
> registered www domain), both .htm and .html, both types display fine.
> What I have not tested is runnng a 4.2 install and using Netscape 4.04
> under Win95 and see how both .htm and .html types work.
> 
> Anyone have an idea what is happening here?  Have searched around for
> info on this abberation but cannot find a solution.  Any advice would be
> appreciated.

You have to register .htm as text/html in your Apache's mime.types file.
Otherwise, it'll be sent with the default mime type, which is text/plain,
which will make netscape display it as plain text.

Zeev

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