Re: how to allow downloading a .map file

Gandalf Parker wrote:
> Apologies if this is RTFM stupid....
>
> I have a site for a popular strategy game (Dominions 2) which wants
to be
> able to offer the games map files as nightly randomly-generated
variations.
> The .tga images are ok but for some of the popular .tga he wants to
simply
> generate the text .map files so people can click on them and get the
> download popup.
>
> Unfortunately Apache (debian linux in case it matters) is treating
them as
> html map files. Is there a way by .htaccess or http.conf to set a
> particular directory as treating .map files as .txt files?

Remove any AddType or AddHandler referring to .map and add
AddType text/plain .map

Joshua

jslive@gmail.com wrote in news:cer93f$2lg@odak26.prod.google.com:

> Gandalf Parker wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately Apache (debian linux in case it matters) is treating
> them as
>> html map files. Is there a way by .htaccess or http.conf to set a
>> particular directory as treating .map files as .txt files?
>
> Remove any AddType or AddHandler referring to .map and add
> AddType text/plain .map

THanks.
I should have added. I was hoping for something spcific to a directory so
that I didnt have to break map files for the whole machine.

Gandalf Parker