Netscape trying to "view" Word documents

[Roy Tennant]

It's not enough to set up the client side, you also need to set up the 
server side. That is, you need to tell NCSA HTTPD what to do with files 
with the extension "doc". So here's how:

In the httpd directory there is a subdirectory "conf". Within that 
directory is a text file called "mime.types". The file consists of a 
number of one-line entries that match a MIME type to one or more filename 
extensions. Some are already set for you and others are not. For example, 
a fragment of mine looks like this:

application/msword
application/news-message-id
application/news-transmission
application/octet-stream       bin
application/oda                oda
application/pdf                pdf
application/postscript         ai eps ps

Notice how some MIME types have the extension set to be recognized to be 
of a certain type, and others (like msword at the top) do not. All you 
need to do is add "doc" next to "application/msword", reboot httpd and 
you're set. Thanks,
Roy

On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Tim Tripp wrote:

> Greetings, Gentlefolk
> 
> We're setting up an Intranet, running off of a 486 running Linux and NCSA 
> HTTPd.  Some of the documents contain links to forms or other documents 
> in Word format.  When you click on the link in Netscape (1.1), it tries to 
> view the document instead of prompting the user, or launching Word.  Now, 
> I've got Word configured in my helper applications, to launch when 
> Netscape hits files with the ".doc" extension.  I've tried changin that to 
> "prompt user", but no change in what it does. 
> 
> I'm probably missing something totally obvious, but I've got to give a demo 
> this week, and I'm beginning to panic!
> 
> Can anybody out there see the obvious?
> 
> 
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