OK. That did it. Never had to use that before and certainly didn't know to look in MIME. Thank you very much. Carl Carpenter IT Manager Hill Country Community MHMR Center (830)258-5414 > -----Original Message----- > From: Dragon [mailto:dragon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:01 PM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Powerpoint slideshows are gibberish > > > 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. > ---------------- End original message. --------------------- > > 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 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Venimus, Saltavimus, Bibimus (et naribus canium capti > sumus) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP > Server Project. See > <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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