[deployment-guide/comm-rel: 498/727] Updated the DefaultType directive description.
Jaromir Hradilek
jhradile at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 19 13:06:45 UTC 2010
commit eb23038cfcda9f5ad1f03c55fcebac1a74c02cb3
Author: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile at redhat.com>
Date: Thu Aug 26 11:10:52 2010 +0200
Updated the DefaultType directive description.
en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml | 30 ++++++++++++++++--------------
1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml b/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml
index a89d401..08467bb 100644
--- a/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml
+++ b/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml
@@ -804,21 +804,23 @@ AddIcon /icons/blank.png ^^BLANKICON^^</screen>
</example>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>DefaultType</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <option>DefaultType</option> directive allows you to specify a media type to be used in case the proper MIME type cannot be determined by the server. It takes the following form:
+ </para>
+ <screen>DefaultType <replaceable>media-type</replaceable></screen>
+ <para>
+ The <replaceable>media-type</replaceable> option has to be a valid MIME type such as <literal>text/html</literal>, <literal>image/png</literal>, <literal>application/pdf</literal> etc.
+ </para>
+ <example id="example-apache-httpdconf-defaulttype">
+ <title>Using the <option>DefaultType</option> directive</title>
+ <screen>DefaultType text/plain</screen>
+ </example>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
- <formalpara id="s2-apache-defaulttype">
- <title>DefaultType</title>
- <indexterm>
- <primary><command>DefaultType</command></primary>
- <secondary>Apache configuration directive</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>configuration directives, Apache</primary>
- <secondary><command>DefaultType</command></secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <para>
- <command>DefaultType</command> sets a default content type for the Web server to use for documents whose MIME types cannot be determined. The default is <command> text/plain</command>.
- </para>
- </formalpara>
<formalpara id="s2-apache-deny">
<title>Deny</title>
<indexterm>
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