Types Configuration File format

Adventurous types may want to add types to their server for local use. We strongly recommend you use the AddTypes directive instead.

Nonetheless, the format of the types configuration file is as follows.

Each line contains information for one http type. These types resemble MIME types. If you plan to add new ones, you should use subtypes beginning with x-, such as application/x-myprogram.

Lines beginning with # are comment lines, and suitably ignored.

Each line consists of:

type/subtype ext1 ext2 ... extn

type/subtype is the MIME-like type of the document.

ext* is any number of space-separated filename extensions which should be returned to the client if a file with the given extension is referenced.

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NCSA HTTPd Development Team / httpd@ncsa.uiuc.edu / 9-11-95