Archive for February, 2008

Force download in apache

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

if you want to force certain kind of files to pop up the save as dialog box, you have to add the AddType directive with the value application/octet-stream to the .htaccess file like this: AddType application/octet-stream .csv AddType application/octet-stream .xls AddType application/octet-stream .doc AddType application/octet-stream .avi AddType application/octet-stream .mpg AddType application/octet-stream .mov AddType application/octet-stream .pdf and that's ...

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Configure ubuntu to use mod_rewrite

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

To enable mod_rewrite on Ubuntu is pretty easy what we have to do is, first we enable the apache module for mod rewrite with this line. sudo a2enmod rewrite After that we have to edit the file /etc/apache2/sites-avalible/default, then we look for this: Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ...

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