[Techtalk] configuring Apache2 for pdf

[Cynthia Kiser]

Sounds like it might be a mime configuration issue. Ask the
complainers if they can give you an example url that works the way
they expect (to rule out browser strangeness) and then run "wget -S
$URL" against both the "good" and your url. See if you get the same
mime type set for both. If not, then poke around the Apache docs until
you find out why files with the .pdf extension are not being given the
correct mime type. 

Quoting Helen <hrosseau at rogers.com>:
> I recently have been receiving complaints from people accessing my web 
> site that they cannot see pdf files in line with their browser.  They 
> have to "save target as" and then open the file.  I've been searching 
> the apache web site, for a configuration file example or reference to 
> handle this, with no luck.
> 
>    Any suggestions?  I am using SuSE9.0 with  the default apache2 
> server.  Everything else seems to work.  I just had to rebuild my server 
> again from a hard drive crash and I had the same problem previously.
> 
> Helen

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Cynthia N. Kiser
cnk at ugcs.caltech.edu