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To: Keith Ward <kward@panther.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Configuration help for Apache [off-topic]
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Keith Ward wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> First, sorry for posting this slightly off-topic message here.  I do
> so only since this may be the place where I saw the lost reference
> (searched the archives but no luck), and my monitor now has a dent
> from my head-banging.
> 
> What I am in search of is reference to a url which I saw on a fairly
> recient posting (somewhere, maybe within the past month), which was
> explaining the configuration steps used to have Apache send gzipped
> files as unzipped, text/html content when requested by the client.
> 
> What I've got is a directory hierarchy full of text documents which
> have been gzipped (.gz).  Prior to being zipped, they are indexed,
> and the directories are also accessable directly.  What I want to
> do is when someone clicks on, say...
> 
>         http://some.where.com/mydocs/topic1/part1.gz
> 
> That my server (Apache 1.3.12) will ungzip the file and send with
> a text/html (or text/plain) content type so the content is then
> displayed as plain text in the client browser.
> 
Not a problem.  Mine is doing that by default
(http://rfc.thehousleys.net).  I believe the following will do it

<IfModule mod_mime.c>
    
    #
    # AddEncoding allows you to have certain browsers (Mosaic/X 2.1+)
uncompress
    # information on the fly. Note: Not all browsers support this. 
    # Despite the name similarity, the following Add* directives have
nothing
    # to do with the FancyIndexing customization directives above.
    # 
    AddEncoding x-compress Z
    AddEncoding x-gzip gz tgz
</IfModule mod_mime.c>

This is an excertp from the latest
apache+php+mod_ssl-1.3.12+3.0.15+2.6.1 w/mod_auth_mysql-2.20

Jim
-- 
Unix is very user-friendly.  It's just picky who its friends are.


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