Carl Carpenter wrote:
I just brought up an Apache2 webserver on Fedora Core 6. Copied the content
from my old Apache 1.3 server and thought it was working fine. Then someone
clicked on a PowerPoint slideshow file (.pps) and received a screen full of
gibberish instead of the option to open the file in PowerPoint. Can anyone
tell me why and how to fix it? I've verified the file--it's fine. If I
point the browser to a .ppt file, it prompts for an application or to save.
But not the .pps. I have gone through the conf file but don't see anything
closely related. Have made only minor changes to default config file.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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This is a MIME type issue. Your server needs to be configured to
associate the .pps extension with the correct MIME type for a
PowerPoint file so it can serve the correct content type header when
the file is sent.
The correct MIME type for this type of file is application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
Then see:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_mime.html#addtype
If the Apache server does not know what the correct MIME type of a
file is, it attempts to serve it as text/plain. This is why you are
seeing "gibberish", the raw file is being rendered as plain text in
the browser.
Dragon
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