Re: [NTLK] Installing pkg with webserver

From: John Charlton (johncharlton_at_mac.com)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 11:23:12 PST


On OS X you may look in:

/private/etc/httpd/mime.types

I added the line:

application/x-newton-compatible-pkg pkg

On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 01:57 PM, Peter H. Coffin wrote:

> Jordi Rosquillas wrote:
>> machine, so I put the package available in the server's documents
>> folder and browse
>> to it with my MP2100's Net Hooper, but when I click in the package,
>> instead of downloading the package (as it does in the unna files) it
>> gets displayed as text. In other message there was said that I had to
>> modify the apache server config so the package gets deliviered
>> (served) as Newton Package, bu= t
>> I don't know how to do this.
>
> You need to set the MIME type to deliver files with .pkg extensions to
>
> application/x-newton-compatible-pkg
>
> Mine's in /var/www/conf/mime.types, but you'll need to check your own
> installation to see where this is for your machine.

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