Changing Mime Type of a File

Is this possible?

[Nick_W]

Hi all,

Is it possbile to change a file from

text/plain

to

text/css

?

I'm having trouble getting NN7 to read css files and when I use the 'file' comand i get

text/plain

for my CSS files and I think this may be the problem...

Many thanks...

Nick

[seindal]

Apache has a directive that maps file extensions to mime types.

The file program is completely different from apache. It will look into the file and try to match the content against various patterns in an attempt to deduce the mime type of the content.

An easy way to find the mime type of a file as seen by apache is to use "wget -d URL" which will show the entire communication between client and server. Wget is a unix program, but a windows version exists.

René

[universalis]

I assume your problem is this:

[devedge.netscape.com...]

Are you using Apache? If so, in the .htaccess file in your web root, add this line:

AddType text/css css

Problem solved!

Hope this helps...

[Nick_W]

Hmmmm.. tried the .htaccess thing. I understand the principle and can't see why it wont work...

Just wondered if there was a way to physically change the Mime type?

Thanks guys!

Nick

[seindal]

Just wondered if there was a way to physically change the Mime type?

The mime type is not a property of the file. It is something that is associated with the file through some process of examination of the file. Apache uses the file name extension, the file program the first part of the files content.

So there is not way to change it. You can, however, influence the process of assigning a mime type to the file, by setting apache directives or by renaming or editing the file.

René.

[dingman]

I don't know what your hosting setup is, so I don't know if you can do this, but you might try making entries in /etc/mime.types or /etc/apache/mime.types. (On my system, the latter is a symlink to the former) The line you want is

text/css css