MIME Types Using .htaccess

Here we going to see MIME types using .htaccess. MIME is short for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, But also modern MIME types apply to other services in addition to email. The MIME types help to identify what a file is or what file type is. Here the example, MIME types can assist a browser to determine what type of content is about to be processed so the browser can do the proper controls, media player or plugins to display the data perfectly.

The following instruction will help you to do in a proper way. For this first create a .htaccess file and add the following code.

1 2	# HTML # AddType text/html .html .htm

The first “AddType” defines that you are adding a MIME type. The second section is the MIME type in this case text or HTML and the last one is an extension of the file ( example “.html”).

# HTML #

AddType text/html .html .htm

 

# (SSI) Server Side Includes #

AddType text/html .shtml

 

# CSS #

AddType text/css .css

 

# XHTML #

AddType application/xhtml+xml .xhtml

 

# XML #

AddType text/xml .xml

 

# Active Server Pages #

AddType text/html .asp

 

# Favicons #

AddType image/vnd.microsoft.icon .ico

 

# IMAGES #

AddType image/gif .gif .GIF

AddType image/x-xpixmap .xpm

AddType image/x-portable-anymap .pnm

AddType image/jpeg .jpeg .jpg .jpe .JPG

AddType image/x-portable-graymap .pgm

AddType image/tiff .tiff .tif

AddType image/x-cmu-raster .ras

AddType image/x-rgb .rgb

AddType image/x-portable-bitmap .pbm

AddType image/ief .ief

AddType image/x-portable-pixmap .ppm

AddType image/x-xwindowdump .xwd

AddType image/x-xbitmap .xbm

 

# SVG #

AddType image/svg+xml .svg .svgz

 

# Adobe PDF #

AddType application/pdf .pdf

 

# Real #

AddType audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin .rpm

AddType audio/vnd.rn-realaudio .ra .ram

AddType video/vnd.rn-realvideo .rv

AddType application/vnd.rn-realmedia .rm

 

# Microsoft multimedia #

AddType application/x-ms-wmz .wmz

AddType application/x-ms-wmd .wmd

AddType audio/x-ms-wma .wma

AddType audio/x-ms-wax .wax

AddType video/x-ms-wmv .wmv

AddType video/x-ms-wvx .wvx

AddType video/x-ms-asf .asf .asx

AddType video/x-ms-wm .wm

AddType video/x-ms-wmx .wmx

 

# MPEG #

AddType audio/x-mpegurl .m3u

 

# Binary Compressed files and archives #

AddType application/octet-stream .dmg .bin .exe

AddType application/zip .zip

AddType application/x-gtar .gtar

AddType application/x-rar-compressed .rar

AddType application/x-gzip .gz

 

# Java #

AddType application/x-java-applet .class

 

# Quicktime movies #

AddType video/quicktime .mov .qt

 

# XBM files #

AddType image/x-xbitmap .xbm

 

# WAV files #

AddType audio/x-wav .wav

 

# Macromedia #

AddType application/x-authorware-seg .aas

AddType application/x-authorware-bin .aab

AddType application/x-shockwave-flash .swf

AddType application/x-director .dir .dcr .dxr .fgd

AddType image/x-freehand .fh4 .fh5 .fh7 .fhc .fh

AddType application/x-authorware-map .aam